One of those owners was financier Otto Hermann Kahn, who built Oheka Castle — named after its owner (Oh-He-Ka) — on Long Island in 1919. Kahn's wife used to call the home "Otto's zoo," and ...

In 1948, the Eastern Military Academy purchased Oheka Castle. After removing the lush gardens, subdividing the rooms, and changing the interior, the school went bankrupt in the 1980s. It was at ...