Castle On Armitage

I must confess, I have a thing for castles. Castle shaped gas stations were my fantasy last year. This year it seems to be castle shaped homes. When I was a middle school aged kid in the early 1990s, my father used to work in a courtyard apartment building across the street from Indian Boundary Park on the corner of Rockwell and Estes, bordered on the south by Lunt. It was and still is one of my favorite Chicago parks. Even as an eleven year old though, I was always seemingly fascinated by the huge jumbo courtyard apartment buildings around the area. While the one my dad worked in was a bit small by comparison, those surrounding the park are monstrous luxuries of beauty. However, it was actually one smaller building about a block or two to the north on Rockwell that fascinated me the most. The whole thing was shaped liked a castle and even had old creaky, wooden doors that looked like it stretched back to the Middle Ages. I must have really liked castles back then because by the time I was in high school in the latter part of the 1990s, I was completely enraptured by watching A&E's America's Castles, back when watching basic cable was actually fun. I haven't been down to the Indian Boundary area in quite a while, but one of these days I will have to visit to snap photos.

Today, my fascination is no different. I am not sure if this home is actually new construction but I love the mini castle feel as it looks like a home version of Castle Car Wash. The encircling stairway also gives this a nice touch and the blocks inside the doorstep are certainly to die for. Located on Armitage a couple of blocks east of the Spider House, all this baby needs to feel complete is a moat.