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  • Jim Bishop, Southern Colorado castle builder, dies at 80

    12/07/2024 3:42:04 PM PST · by Ultra Sonic 007 · 18 replies
    Colorado Public Radio ^ | November 21, 2024 | Shanna Lewis
    The man who created one of Southern Colorado’s most beloved and quirky attractions has died, according to a social media post. James “Jim” Roland Bishop began building his monumental stone castle high atop a hillside in the forest of the Wet Mountains in 1969 on land in rural Custer County that he purchased ten years earlier, as a teenager. An ironworker by trade, the Pueblo resident labored on weekends, mostly singlehandedly on what was intended to be a small cottage. More than five decades later it stands about 165 feet tall, boasts stained glass windows and is topped by a...