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Thursday, January 5, 1961, page 38 (of 41)

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Do-it-Yourself Castle One man built his own in Fox River Grove, Ill.

Bettendorff's castle has pentagon-shaped walls measuring 170' by 80' by 80' by 180' by 60'. WE LIKE TO THINK there's no dream that can't come true. Witness Theodore Bettendorff, 71, whose home is literally his castle. He is not an industrial giant but a genial master craftsman besieged by a lifelong dream: to own a castle. Twenty-nine years ago, working after hours and over weekends, he laid the foundations for the castle which now stands atop a bluff overlooking the town (as a castle should), complete with drawbridge, a moss-covered moat, and turrets. When Bettendorff began to build his dream house, he had only childhood memories of castles he had visited in Luxembourg, where he was born. With no plans to go by, he simply combined muscle power with a long roster of skills. He dug into a nearby rock quarry, cut and hauled stones, made his own concrete molds to trim the turrets, cut oak logs to make beams, and forged iron for ornamental work. "If I had had blueprints," he says, "the project would have overwhelmed me." Bettendorff built a dungeon, 22 feet deep, and towers to tickle low-flying clouds. "By going at it a little at a time," he explains, "it didn't seem too hard." Last summer, when he cranked down the massive drawbridge and unlocked the great oak doors with a proper Gulliver-size key, a goggling neighbor asked why he didn't charge admission and make it a museum. "Then it wouldn't be a home," he replied. Now retired, Mr. Bettendorff cultivates his garden and shows castle off to friends. Drawbridge over a moss-lined moat—with guardrail to keep children from falling in. Suburbia Today, January 1961 23

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