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A fortune, a widow and a castle in Lake Tahoe’s Emerald Bay By Julie Brown
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by the mysterious widow who built the castle at Emerald Bay.
I often visit Emerald Bay to go hiking. From the mountainside, you can see Fanette Island and just barely make out the box-like shape of a stone teahouse on top. I ve heard stories about the wealthy woman who built the teahouse on the island. In the summer, when guests would visit her at her castle on the shore of Emerald Bay, called Vikingsholm, the butler would row her and her friends across the bay to the island for tea time. I imagined they wore summer dresses, carried parasols and sipped tea out of fine china, while enjoying Emerald Bay’s glory all by themselves.