844 N. Live Oak Ave., Glendora, California. County/parish: Los Angeles.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 07, 2013. NRIS 13000810.
11 contributing buildings. 3 contributing structures.Also known as:
Rubel Castle (AKA Rubelia) was established in Glendora, California, by Michael Clarke Rubel (April 16, 1940 – October 15, 2007) and is owned and operated by the Glendora Historical Society.
In 1959, a teenage Michael Rubel purchased a 1.7-acre plot dominated by an old reservoir and packing house from a recently defunct citrus orchard. Continuing a childhood passion of building forts and other improvised structures, he and his friends soon embarked on a building program that was only completed in 1986. Rubel Castle was constructed out of concrete as well as nontraditional materials including scrap steel, rocks, bedsprings, coat hangers, bottles, and other repurposed materials that Rubel salvaged from the neighborhood as the old ranches and barns were giving way to tract houses.
To this day, chickens and other animals are frequently sighted on the grounds.
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