On a lonely island fifty miles north of New York City, the bricks of a
once-proud castle slowly return to the earth. The crumbling fortress is
one of several remaining structures on tiny Pollepel Island, an abandoned six-and-a-half acre crag hugging the east bank of the Hudson River.
The 100 year-old Bannerman’s Castle was originally built as
an arsenal, and has been abandoned for the last forty five years since a
fire ravaged the island in the summer of 1969. It was the creation of a
nineteenth-century businessman and served as an advertisement for the
era’s largest military surplus empire.
When the castle’s namesake passed away, the island was forgotten.
It’s brief resurrection was cut short by a fatal fire. For half a
century the building has been losing battles against nature. Absent
intervention in the very near future, it may lose the war.
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