Bancroft Castle in Groton Massachusetts

During the Spanish-American War, William Amos Bancroft was a brigadier general for the United States Volunteers, having enlisted in the fifth regiment of the state militia in his Freshman year of attending Harvard Law School.
Bancroft was born and grew up in Groton though later resided in the Cambridge area having quite a career as a businessman and politician. Not only did Bancroft serve in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, he was also a member of the Cambridge Board of Aldermen and Common Council, respectively, served as the Mayor of Cambridge (1893-1897), and then president of the Boston Elevated Railway Company from (1899 to 1916).
Intended to be a retirement home, a castle-bungalow mansion complete with a stable along the crest of Gibbet Hill in his hometown of Groton, which he would call Shawfieldmont. To his dismay, funding was lost to complete the fantastic home, and after 12 years sold the property to renowned physician Harold Ayres in 1918.
After a bit of transfiguration, the land would become a sanatorium for those who had suffered from various ailments like the Spanish flu and tuberculosis.
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