Bob Vila tours Copenhaver Castle 1987 

Can’t believe this doesn’t have more views whether you like the guy or not or think he’s a nut, I think this place should be a historical landmark just for its authenticity some old houses less grand get accepted and maintained

This video definitely deserves more attention!! driving by this masterpiece today you would have no idea that at one point it was a fully functioning home with food in the fridge, a car in the driveway, electricity and running water. Today it just looks like an outer shell, you wouldn’t have even thought the inside was completely finished at one point.

Wow! Just beautiful, really amazing all the antiques and the views, lucky guy

One year later he lost it when he went bankrupt along with the next owner

We are remodeling castle now.

excellent dear keep them coming.

Never sit on a Man’s throne without asking! Come on Bob you should know better

BURIAL VASES This guys a hoot

Wow

In 1987, even then, this place looked ridiculously 70’s and dated. Like the Playboy mansion, less the ladies, and plus a Howard Johnson’s.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

He built it by himself?? I don’t even understand

Owner: The concrete ceiling doubles as a bomb shelter. Bob: It doubles as a bomb shelter? Owner: Yes. Bob: Oh. Ok. (Bob's suspicion that he's a nut is confirmed)

Can you imagine the air conditioning bill for that place in the summer? 🥵

Chips a away thought it was chips ahoy

He traded labor for fixing people's teeth, lots of local construction workers did small jobs over many years.

Blows my mind why people would wana live on the mountain there and not just build nicer houses in phx. And all the houses are quite close together, there’s one right below him. And then do all that beautiful work just to go bankrupt, big smh 🤦🏻‍♀️

Blows my mind that there’s rich weirdos building up in the mountain instead of buying old land in phx or tearing down the ghetto houses and building there. I feel like downtown Phoenix couldve been wayyy nicer, but the rich branched out to Scottsdale and up the mountains I guess. I just don’t understand the want to live on a mountain, they enjoy the drive I guess lol. He had way to many things he didn’t need, like the crystal glasses and two beds in the master? Don’t have to wonder why he went bankrupt 😂😂 hate people like that

I like the outside, But the inside is ugly, NOT my tast at all.....Too dark and ugly furniture

This is an example of somebody who has too much money and does not have the common sense with what do with it.

No fucking way yhat guy built that house by himself.

Built it by himself? Damn, Bob Villa lost all his credibility with that statement. That dentist couldn't mix a wheelbarrow full of concrete by himself.

Dude literally admitted on camera to digging up and removing pre-Columbian artifacts from South America.

He must have been one heck of a dentist. I wanted to see the helicopter

I bet the parties were legendary.

Just before this video I watched one on the same home that gave the impression that it had never been completed, let alone lived in. Enjoyed this very much. Well done. Thank you.

Something fishy about this place don’t add up.

He removed a rock from the Grand Canyon?