Franc Maj, a merchant from the village of Bočar bought it as a dowry for his daughter Emilia. She brought the castle to her groom Milan Kapetanov upon marriage – hence the name Kapetanovo. However, there is the legend associated with the castle. The legend has it that the castle saw evil fate in 1938 as Béla’s wife, Emma, unable to stand the bankruptcy and losing the castle, doused herself with gasoline and set herself on fire. Nothing left of her but a strand of blond hair that was floating around the castle for a long time. In August 1938, stories say, the sky was streaked with comets every night, reminiscent of that sad fireworks display. Even today, when the reapers mow the grass around the castle, instead of grass, according to the legend, a lock of blonde hair is sometimes found on their scythes and rakes. The shadow of a blonde-haired woman is allegedly appearing every year on the day of St. Ilija, which classifies Kapetanovo as a haunted castle surrounded by legend like those found in Britain.

The castle is constructed as a manor house surrounded by a well-tended spacious park with a fountain. It is a multi-storey, longitudinal plan building with asymmetrically distributed masses. It is designed in Romantic Historicism tradition incorporating Gothic and Romanesque style elements. Intentionally built upon arbitrary style to emphasise and provoke the feeling of nostalgia, this building is considered to be an example of Eclecticism. It stands out for the flanking tower and two steep gable roofs stretching symmetrically along the middle sections of two main facades. Polygonal pilasters imitate small towers. The architect was obviously the practitioner of Flemish and Hanseatic school given the noticeable influence of the two traditions. Obviously the idea was to make the mixture between Mediaeval castle and Hanseatic mansion. All the windows have the identically designed Gothic arches pointed to the top. White plastic mortar is used to imitate white marble.