Bishop Castle started with 15-year-old Jim Bishop who paid $450 for a two-and-a-half-acre piece of land in 1959. His father helped him build a small stone cottage on the land, but once locals put ...

A memorial fit for a king will be held at his castle this summer. Bishop’s Castle has announced an upcoming service for creator and namesake Jim Bishop on July 5. Bishop died late last year at the age ...

PUEBLO — The creator and builder of Bishop Castle, James (Jim) Roland Bishop passed away. The Bishop family announced that Mr Bishop died on Thursday in Pueblo, surrounded by his loved ones.

The king of Bishop Castle has passed away. Over the years, Jim Bishop weathered numerous setbacks, including an attempted legal takeover of his magnificent roadside attraction and a fire that ...

A date has been set for a public memorial service in remembrance of Jim Bishop, the visionary behind one of Colorado’s most unique attractions. James “Jim” Roland Bishop ...

COLORADO (KXRM) — Bishop Castle reported on Thursday morning that the man who built the well-known stone structure along the ...

RYE, Colo. (KRDO) – The family of Jim Bishop, the man behind Colorado's iconic Bishop Castle, is inviting the community to celebrate his life and legacy. Bishop died late last week in Pueblo ...

The 80-year-old man who spent nearly five decades building a castle by hand in southern Colorado, died Thursday. James Roland Bishop passed away early Thursday morning in Pueblo, surrounded by his ...

A post on the official Bishop Castle Facebook page confirmed Roland’s passing. “It is with a heavy heart that the Bishop family announces the passing of James Roland Bishop,” the post reads ...

A Bishop Castle Facebook post announced that builder Jim Bishop passed away "surrounded by loved ones" in Pueblo, where he was a lifelong resident. Services have yet to be announced. Bishop was 80.

Bishop is well-known in Colorado for Bishop Castle, a 160-foot-tall marvel he built himself in the San Isabel National Forest about 15 miles outside of Rye. The eccentric Bishop often greeted ...

James “Jim” Roland Bishop began building his monumental stone castle high atop a hillside in the forest of the Wet Mountains in 1969 on land in rural Custer County that he purchased ten years ...