The House on the Rock

 The place where Trish and I spent the day yesterday is most difficult to describe.  The House on the Rock was said to have been born in a meeting between Frank Lloyd Wright and Alex Jordan when Wright laughed at an architectural plan Jordan had drawn.  Jordan vowed that he would build a Japanese house that Wright could see.  

On top of a sixty-five foot rock five miles from Wright’s home, in the 1940’s Jordan built The House in the Rock and opened it to tourists. 

But…that building was only the beginning.  By today there are three gigantic buildings so hidden in the woods that you do not see them when entering the overall complex.  It took us five hours to walk through it all, and that was with very little lingering!

The house itself goes on and on and features Japanese themed rooms and is more than 4,000 square feet right in too of the Rock.  It features the Infinity Room that takes you out over the treetops.

Leaving the House, you begin to enter two gigantic museum buildings you did not know were there. What to they contain? Unimaginable multitudes of collections of everything from dollhouses to carousels!

There is the Street of Yesteryear that features a fill street of shops and establishment which themselves serve as little museums from the dentists’s office to the apothecary of yesteryear.

The Music of Yesteryear holds giant music boxes, player pianos and other self-playing instruments of every sort, gigantic self playing organs and even a full band and orchestra with animatronic musicians on real robotic instruments!

There is a large collection of miniature circuses, twenty or more, finally leading to the word’s largest carousel.  Eighty feet in diameter and with 269 animals to ride, the carousel contains not a single horse, but figures from full-sized elephants to imaginary dragons.  The organ that accompanies it totally surrounds the giant room housing the carousel!

Imagine five hours of more stuff!  All we can say is they you should go there ONCE!  That will be enough to last a very long time!