House of the Week: A Wooden Castle in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest
By Nancy Keates
April 4, 2025 3:25 pm ET
The specs
- List price: $21.5 million CAN ($15 million USD)
- Size: 8,973 sq. ft.
- Land: 130 acres
- 8 bedrooms, 10 baths
All in the family
Wolfgang and Gabriele von der Burg and their son, Philip, were looking for a place where they could all live together when they found 130 acres of land on a peninsula in British Columbia. Over the next 14 years, they built a luxury resort with a handcrafted wooden castle made from hand-selected old-growth red and yellow cedar logs, while also installing power and water.
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