Coghlan Castle

Built between 1906 and 1909, Coghlan Castle (fig. 1) is a large fieldstone farmhouse located on private property approximately five miles north of the town of Rolla in Rolette County, North Dakota (Quinnell and Bentley, 2008). The house was built for Maurice Coghlan, an Irish-born entrepreneur from Boston, to house himself and his family on land he formally homesteaded in 1889 and 1890. It remained occupied until 1948 when the prohibitive cost of heating this large, essentially uninsulated stone structure, forced the then owners to move out. Learn more about the castle here: https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/documents/newsletter/2008Summer/pdfs/CoghlanCastle.pdf.