Stone Castle in the Lake of the Ozarks

Jessica N. Harrison

Professor Sue Stelford

Arts 111

May 10, 2013

Stone Castle in the Lake of the Ozarks

Art work can take many different shapes and forms, it can be a painting, sculpture, statue, or it can also be a unique building. The art work that caught my attention while being stationed here in Missouri has to be the Stone Castle I visited a few weeks back. The ancient work I will be discussing from our text will be the mosque figure 9.10 on page 312 (Adams, 2011). I will discussing who built them, when they were built, the name they were given, and how and where they were created. I will also give a description and compare and contrast them together. I will be going over their identification next.

The architect for the stone castle in Missouri was Adrian Van Brunt from Kansas City and the architect for the mosque was Sinan the Great from Turkey. These two architects were working to build the dreams of another person and ended up making a great contribution in history. The two architectures were named the Ha Ha Tonka Castle and the Mosque of Suleyman I. Construction on the two began in 1905 and in 1550. The Ha Ha Tonka Castle was built for Robert Snyder who was a prominent business man who had a dream of a private retreat that was an inspiration of the European castles. The Mosque of Suleyman was built on the order of Sultan Suleyman and “plays on Suleyman’s self-conscious representation of himself as a ‘second solomon’ (Tschanz, 2012).

The Ha Ha Tonka Castle was built by cutting down the oak trees and timber on the property. “The tower through gravity pressure would furnish water to the garages/stables and the mansion” (Ha Ha Tonka State Park, n.d.). Over two hundred men were used for the construction in order to save money. Stone from the property was also used in the construction of the castle and were cut and sized then packed to the castle by mules and a hoisting engine pulling a cart on tracks. “The domes express the symbolic significance of the...