Sun, 6/6/10
WI Riverside Resort, Spring Green, WI: Left about 11:00 this morning for The House on the Rock. We’d seen signs for this attraction all along the highways in Wisconsin but never stopped. Decided to take the side trip this year—and it was well worth it. Alex Jordan used to picnic on this rocky pinnacle as a teenager and then ended up buying the property and started his 14-room house there in 1960.. The house is amazing—filled with Asian artifacts, a beautiful stained glass lamp collection, stained glass panels and eclectic furniture. His collections of the exotic and the whimsical expanded into several out-buildings. He has a huge collection of room-size automated music machines, the largest carousel in the world which is a feast for the senses displaying 269 handcrafted animals and 20,000 lights. There was a collection of antique guns, swords, and other antiques of every description. It took us over 6 hours to see everything. On the way back we stopped and checked out the pretty little town of Spring Green which has several buildings that definitely had the Frank Lloyd Wright look. Stopped at the grill in our park and bought a cheeseburger for Mike and a hotdog for me and took them back home to eat. Not very healthy, but very tasty. Tomorrow we leave for beautiful Door County.
WI Riverside Resort, Spring Green, WI: Left about 11:00 this morning for The House on the Rock. We’d seen signs for this attraction all along the highways in Wisconsin but never stopped. Decided to take the side trip this year—and it was well worth it. Alex Jordan used to picnic on this rocky pinnacle as a teenager and then ended up buying the property and started his 14-room house there in 1960.. The house is amazing—filled with Asian artifacts, a beautiful stained glass lamp collection, stained glass panels and eclectic furniture. His collections of the exotic and the whimsical expanded into several out-buildings. He has a huge collection of room-size automated music machines, the largest carousel in the world which is a feast for the senses displaying 269 handcrafted animals and 20,000 lights. There was a collection of antique guns, swords, and other antiques of every description. It took us over 6 hours to see everything. On the way back we stopped and checked out the pretty little town of Spring Green which has several buildings that definitely had the Frank Lloyd Wright look. Stopped at the grill in our park and bought a cheeseburger for Mike and a hotdog for me and took them back home to eat. Not very healthy, but very tasty. Tomorrow we leave for beautiful Door County.
House on the Rock
My house will stand on a rock on a hill,
Overlooking a valley deep and still.
Alex Jordan
Water lily in the Japanese Garden
Waterfall in the Japanese Garden
The beautiful stained glass lamps
One of many little seating nooks
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