The Ghost From My Childhood

When Harriet Douglas visited her Uncle Sir William Douglas' residence, Gelston Castle, in Scotland as a young girl she vowed to one day build a replica of her own. As members of her family died, Harriett gained possession of the Henderson land in Jordanville N.Y. and resolved to make her lifelong dream a reality and had a stone mansion built next to her mother's cottage in 1833. To accomplish her unusual and unique design she insisted it be built with stone blocks to resemble the houses of ...