Architect James McNeal and masonry artist Luke Busker imagined an estate home of revitalized classical form combined with modern touches – a shimmering glass and steel house inside a castle. Nicknamed the Orono Castle, this modern-day stone castle is a 11,000 square-foot fortress that fuses Romanesque architecture with timeless elements of industrial steampunk. Huntington Manor is a solid stone work of art. Seven artists collaborated on this masterpiece, from those crafting the floating staircase that also serves as a greenhouse to the glass artistically used throughout the home. Architect James McNeal likes to design with stone because it has a permanence to it, using it to create substantial statements, not decoratively like a simple veneer or decoration. The manor has 10 exterior arches built of six-inch-thick pieces of stone, detailed with steel. Inside, the home is designed for today’s lifestyle with an open floor plan, floor-to-ceiling windows that let in plenty of natural light and sliding glass doors in the main living area that open onto a large covered porch. Custom-designed wooden doors with steel accents are found throughout, and a spacious chef’s kitchen containing an icebox-look wall of storage, walk-in refrigerator and butler’s pantry looks out over a trio of stone arches that frame up views of the outdoors. Two spiral staircases are found inside, one is a three-story vertical atrium with built-in irrigation. The manor’s main circular floating staircase features an intricate railing system that was designed as both a decorative element and the support of the entire structure – again giving the home its sense of permanence. The home boasts six bedrooms and seven bathrooms. “You see a lot of applied aesthetics in homes, but almost all the details in this home are integrated into the actual building,” said Luke. “This mentality of building functional custom components really forced us to go to the very best of our abilities.” Other unique features: A television hidden behind a hand-cranked picture frame opening, a triple fireplace feature, a hidden crank-operated medicine cabinet and ceiling framework in the primary suite made of steel.