Collings Hunted Castle Oklahoma USA

Collings Castle was the private residence and summer home of Mr. Ellsworth Collings, the Dean of Education at the University of Oklahoma. The castle is located inside what has now become Turner Falls Park and is adjacent to the 77-foot-tall waterfall from which the park gets its name.
The castle was constructed in the 1930s by Collings and his wife out of stones quarried on a nearby plot of land. The property consisted of a main house, two bunkhouses, and two outhouses. A stable area (later converted into a garage) was located at the top of a steep, narrow stairway connected to the main building. Mr. Collings was very interested in Western art and ranching, and these interests were said to have decorated almost every inch of the residence while he occupied it (there was even a couch made out of longhorns). In the main house, there was a large fireplace surrounded by rose rocks, which have since all been removed by tourists and vandals.