Glensheen

Glensheen is a manor house estate and former seat of power of Duluth, Minnesota. Built for wealthy man Chester A. Congdon and his family in 1908. The complex includes a small port, slave housing, automotive assembly line, a greenhouse of poison ivy, and multiple dungeons. The estate is well preserved as an attraction bringing in primarily female tourists between the ages of 35-65.

History

Realizing that Duluth City Hall was inadequate to guard him against a worker revolt, Congdon found a chunk of land outside of the city to build his fortress. The family and the council moved in 1908 and stayed there until The Great Killings of 1916.

Construction

Built using the finest Lake Erie slaves, the manor was completed in only 16 days. The bricks were supplied by stealing a few bricks here and there from old English houses. The granite was quarried off the coast of Maine 300ft below the sea. It is framed in steel beams descreetly taken from non-load bearing walls of the World Trade Center in New York CIty.

Interiors

The 39-room mansion includes 15 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, a few dining rooms, a bowling alley, throne hall, indoor decorative swimming pool, and many snacking buffets. The architect, a young boy with crayons, designed the home’s elegant styles of American Colonial, Rococo, Bauhaus, Dutch Minimalism, and Military Utilitarianism.

The 1916 Revolt and “Great Killings”

In late 1916, Woodrow WIlson’s win for President caused unrest in the City of Duluth. It started as a bar fight at a local pub called “R.T. Quinlan’s.” Within a few hours thousands of college kids were in the streets climbing on lamp posts and tipping over cows. Throughout the night the mob slowly moved east to the Glensheen gates. When the crowd stormed the gates they found the entire Congdon family dead and the upper floors of the house ablaze.

The mansion as seen if you sneak in through the smuggling tunnels.

Historians are still in debate as to what happened that night. The most accepted theory is that Chester Congdon had been slowly going mad for sometime. After the election results came in, Congdon’s heart was broken, so he went to the pub, got everyone riled up causing the scene to break out. He drove off in his Lincoln Navigator back to Glensheen. When he got home he murdered his entire family, started the home’s seventh floor on fire before jumping off the balcony into Tischer Creek below.

Continuing Conspiracy

Despite the story that is accepted, two facts remain: Congdon’s body was never found, the family’s yacht was missing that evening. Conspiracy theorists claim that Chester Congdon actually escaped on the yacht and his still alive living as a political refugee on Pie Island in Ontario.