Driving the car again today up to Alexandria Bay — we actually were on the northern most part of Interstate 81 (which coincidentally we lived close to the southern end of this interstate in Tennessee). More Castle Tours — this time to the Singer Castle — built at the turn of the Century by one of the previous president’s of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, Frederick Borne, as a hunting lodge. The castle is now owned by a group of investors who has restored it as a tourist attraction. We took a boat to Dark Island from Alexandria Bay.
Riding on Top! 
Our Boat tour at Singer Castle
The boat took us through the Thousand Islands again, and we got to see some more small islands with only one house on them…
Singer Family 
Large tanker in the St. Lawrence Seaway
Arriving at Dark Island 
Entry into Cellar 
Door Knocker 
This lawn originally had tennis courts 
Overlooking St Lawrence Seaway
We entered the castle through the Cellar.
The Cellar 
The breakfast room was built on later by one of Fredericks daughters, Marjorie, who lived in the castle after his death.
View of Canada 
Breakfast Room 
Outside the Breakfast room
Sports Therapy Room 
Complete with Light booth; claimed to cure everything 
Marjorie and Alexander Thayer were avid Skiers in suits
Several of the rooms had high ceilings — mainly because there were secret hallways behind the walls that connected a series of secret passageways. In the drawing room servants could look our the tilting picture to check on the guests.
Tilting pictures for peaking into rooms at guests 
Master Bath 
Master bedroom 
Female Servants bath 
Female servants quarters on the top floor
The castle was built in 1903, and was modeled after the book “Woodstock” by Sir Walter Scott which had lots of hidden passageways like these.
linen closet secret passage 
cellar secret passage 
Library secret passage 
Secret passage under tennis courts
There were alot of antique Singer sewing machines throughout the castle.
This lamp doubles as an insect catcher. The top comes off and you dump the insect bodies outside
After another long day of touring, we stopped in Alexandria Bay to have some libations before heading back to the boat.
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Hey Baileys! I have enjoyed following along thru New York and the Erie Canal Passage, and the rest of your trip! You still look like you are having fun and have not reported any calamities lately. Just a comment, the Singer house with the secret passages was way cool! I would love to have gone to the boat museum too! Man that was a lot of beautiful mahogany!
You both seem well, and so are we. We spent nearly two weeks in Middle TN and Kingsport visiting over the 4TH, which was our first visit back since Covid. Too long to be away from friends and family. Our summer is otherwise quiet. Elsa did no damage here and I hope she was kind to Bradenton! Hope you have a good passage thru the Lakes! Be careful and be safe!
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 11:21 AM Larry & Mary’s Great Loop Blog wrote:
> labailey2020 posted: ” Driving the car again today up to Alexandria Bay — > we actually were on the northern most part of Interstate 81 (which > coincidentally we lived close to the southern end of this interstate in > Tennessee). More Castle Tours — this time to the Singer Castl” >
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Hey Stan and Tish! Great to hear from you. Our house sustained no damage from Elsa either. We haven’t had any major issues, just small ones as is normal for boat ownership. One issue right now is our rear head seems to have an issue with keeping vacuum. The pump runs every hour or so — haven’t solved that one yet…Tightened what we could though. and it is not a problem with the duck valve as it is functioning well.
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