For only $ 150,000, you too can own a dilapidated«castle» slowly falling apart in the«beautiful» Irish bayou. An added bonus is the years and years worth of stink left by the last chain-smoking owners. Enjoy.
Pedro S.
Classificação do local: 4 New York, NY
Built as La Château Villemarette in 1981 when a local construction manager from Arabi found a photo of a castle he liked in the ‘C’ encyclopedia in his home, this structure on Irish Bayou was originally intended to attract crowds traveling on I-10 from Slidell that were bound for the World’s Fair in 1984. His neighbors, mostly cajuns that owned the fishing camps on Highway 11, were puzzled, as were the generations of Slidell and New Orleans East schoolchildren that saw the castle from the Interstate over the years and wondered what the story was. In 2005, the Fisherman’s Castle was basically the only thing left standing on Irish Bayou after Katrina. Despite the 140-mile winds that hit Slidell and NOE directly, I only noticed some minor cracks and water stains on the walls in the year after the storm. I hope that in the future someone buys this place and turns it into an Air BnB or something.
