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Phoenix, AZ
Mystery Castle - Boyce Luther Gulley
1883–1945
Castle
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Information:
Built: late 1920s - 1945.
Built in the boulder-strewn foothills of the South Mountain by Boyce Luther Gully, who had left his family in Seattle when he was diagnosed with a serious respiratory illness. The dry warm air improved his health and he began to create the castle he had promised his daughter, when they were building sand castles on the beach.
The building materials used to create the multi-leveled rooms, 13 fireplaces, cantilevered staircases, towers, decks, and patios consisted of simple found objects such as telephone poles, railroad ties, scrap iron and rocks.
After he died in 1945, his daughter inherited the castle and "discovered the history of her father’s disappearance" and became it’s caretaker and protector.
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Bibliography:
"20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art" by Betty-Carol Sellen, Cynthia J. Johnson, Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York, 1993.
"Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Environments" by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan, Aperture, New York, 1997.
"American Self-Taught Art: An Illustrated Analysis of 20th Century Artists and Trends with 1,319 Capsule Biographies" by Florence Laffal and Julius Laffal, 2003.
"Phoenix Outsider Art Environments" text and photos by Ron Gasowski, Folk Art Messenger, Vol. 19, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2006.
"Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations Coast to Coast Travel-o-Pedia" by Randy Mason, et. al., Kansas City Star Books, 2009. |
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