Château Laroche or the Loveland Castle is located on the banks of the Little Miami River near Loveland, Ohio. Designed to resemble historical European castles, its construction began in 1929 by Harry D. Andrews, a Boy Scout troop leader, a medievalist, and a World War I veteran. Andrews worked on the castle for more than 50 years, bringing stones from the Little Miami River, adding bricks, cement, and quart milk cartons mix when he ran out of stones.

Andrews willed the castle to his Boy Scout troop known as the Knights of the Golden Trail, whose members continued to upgrade and renovate it and opened it to the public as a museum. The east tower offers a short video presentation on Andrews' life. There is a chapel upstairs that has a wall built of stones Andrews brought from his travels or that his friends and followers sent to him.

Loveland Castle Museum, 12025 Shore Rd, Loveland, OH 45140, Phone: 513-683-4686

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