When Tamara Finnochiaro and her mother, M.J. Page, said they wanted to live in a castle, they were joking, but their jest became reality after an Internet search in 2003 revealed Pythian Castle was for sale in Springfield, Missouri.

A trip from her hometown in southern California and a 45-minute tour of the dilapidated castle built in 1913 as an orphanage by the Knights of Pythias was all it took for Finnochiaro to decide this was the next project the women would take on even though every inch of ... (more)