McMillan Castle

Lord William Northrop Macmillan, the owner of McMillan Castle was a decorated American soldier and knighted by the King of England even though he was not British. He arrived in Kenya in 1901 for big game hunting, playing host to former US President Theodore Roosevelt during his famous 1911 safari at their ranch, Juja Farm.  He and his wife were great philanthropists and also childless. They established the MacMillan Library in central Nairobi. The facial image immortalized inside Macmillan Memorial Library in Nairobi depict him as a serious man.

Further east of Ol-Donyo, the building that was Macmillan’s home, a fort by any definition, sits in splendour. More than three-quarters of the house is under key and lock. So large is the building that Lord Macmillan and his wife would spend one year in one wing of the house, then migrate to the other in the second half of the year.

It was in this house that Macmillan housed his friend and former American President Theodore Roosevelt, as he wrote his biography.  The other prominent person who had stayed in the house was the wartime British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.  The house also served as a jailhouse during the Second World War. It is also one of Kenya’s most famous film crew joints.

Macmillan’s house which is also referred to as McMillan Castle is a now museum.

Ref: Wikipedia