The original owner of the Creek Road "castle house," now the Castle Creek Inn, was Harold Vordos who, according to inn manager Curtis Isaak, intended it to be his personal luxury home.
Original construction took place in the mid-1970s. A plaque mounted on the front of the house bearing the Vordos name is dated 1979.But the interior of the house was never completed and Isaak said Vordos and his wife lived in a small upstairs apartment in the house. The rest of the house consisted of the two-by-four framework. Vordos, he said, moved to Washington state after selling the house to Lynn and Sallie Calder.
"There are a lot of stories," said Isaak as to why the house was never completed. None of them can be verified.
The Calders hired Chappel Construction to do the work that turned the unfinished house into a first-class bed and breakfast inn. Lynn, an executive with Novell Inc. in Orem, designed and built the fireplace mantels along with much of the interior trim carpentry.
Sallie Calder credits foreman Paul Logan for keeping the renovation, begun last March and completed in August, on a fast track. "To complete a project like this in five months is phenomenal," she said.
She also credits friend Janet Jepson and her daughter Ali for their help in designing the interior. "Jane and Ali are both artists, not decorators," she said. "What we tried to create was not a Parade of Homes but an authentic castle, using a blend of fabrics, texture and color. Some people have told us it reminds them of castles they have seen in Scotland."