George Boldt

George Charles Boldt (1851-1916) was a self-made hotel millionaire.

He managed the Waldorf-Astoria hotel and the Bellevue-Stratford hotel, and was a trustee of Cornell University, at which school two gothic residence halls have been built in his honor. Also known for building Boldt Castle in the Thousand Islands area of New York State. The castle was intended as a gift for his wife Louise Boldt, but when she died suddenly in 1904, construction was halted. The castle, largely completed, is now a major summer tourist attraction in the Alexandria Bay area.