Squire's Castle

Squire's Castle is a shell of a building located in the North Chagrin Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks in Willoughby Hills, Ohio.

[citation needed] About 1890, Squire purchased 525 acres (2.12 km2) of forest land near what is now Willoughby Hills, Ohio, east of Cleveland.

[3] The outer walls are of locally-quarried Euclid bluestone,[4] a form of bluish-colored sandstone found throughout the greater Cleveland area.

[4] Squire abandoned plans for a manor house after encountering difficulty obtaining building materials and labor.

The details varied, but the essential story was that Louisa Squire woke one night during a storm and went downstairs to investigate.

Startled by lightning (which illuminated the stuffed heads of animals in the structure's trophy room), she fell down the stairs and broke her neck.