Castles I've actually visited

Marcus Boyle

@mboyle_nyc

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Full disclosure: NYC has maybe three real castles and I'm padding this list with forts, follies, and one Gilded Age mansion that just really wants to be a castle. As a structural engineer I spend my work week worrying about load paths, so visiting buildings that were designed purely to look cool (zero structural shame, pure vibes) is a nice break. Ranked loosely by how much I'd want to defend each one in a siege.

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Castles I've actually visited — 3 items
Name	Address	City	Built	Material	Why
1The Met Cloisters	99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park	New York, NY 10040	1938	Reassembled medieval French stone	Five actual medieval cloisters disassembled, shipped, and rebuilt as one Frankenstein structure. Respect the engineering, question the ethics.
2Belvedere Castle	79th St, Mid-park at 79th Street	New York, NY 10024	1872	Manhattan schist and granite	A folly with zero structural purpose, which is the most honest building in the city (no load-bearing lies).
3Castle Clinton National Monument	Battery Park	New York, NY 10004	1811	Red sandstone	Built to fight the British, never fired a shot, now sells ferry tickets. Overbuilt and underused, like my rebar budget.