We are in Wausau, WI to visit Lydia’s brother, Eddie, and
his family. Today he is taking us to the
most famous attraction in the state called The House on the Rock. We hoped it would be good as it was a 3 hour
drive to get there. We got to see a lot
of the countryside on the drive and that was nice. We still haven’t seen as many cows as there
are suppose to be in this state. Where
does all the cheese come from if there
are no cows?
We we not expecting much when we got to the House. I mean with a name like the House on the
Rocks, you expect a house and a big rock that it is built on, right? Well, we never actually saw the outside of
the house. We entered the Visitor’s Center
and checked out everything there. We
went to stop at the ticket desk but Eddie said we didn’t have to as we already
had tickets. Remember this, it will
appear later.
The house and surrounding buildings were built by a man
named Alex Jordon. In the 1940’s he returned to this area where
his family used to picnic. He dreamed of
creating a wonderful house where he could work on his art and be secluded from
the rest of the world. He build much of
the original house himself, sometimes carrying supplies up 75 feet. In the 1960’s he finally allowed tours of
the house and decided to charge a fee.
Using the money he collected he added on to the house. He also created many wondrous things and
collected many others. There are a total
of 3 tours you can take and our ticket allowed us to take all three.
We walked into the start of the house tour. The first thing you go into is the
gardens. There are many plants, flowers
and a large Koi pond. 
It took about 45 minutes or so before we reached the start
of tour 2, which was more of the house and into the Infinity Room. There is a ticket taker here who asked to see
our tickets. Bill produced ours and was
told he had to go back to the beginning (remember the ticket counter we walked
right past?) and exchange our voucher for tickets! Bill collected as many as he could so that
everyone didn’t have to go but we couldn’t find Terry. He had somehow gotten past this fellow and
was already In that next portion of the house.
Bill returned and we joined Terry.
Alex Jordon built an infinity Room
that has no visible means of support.
As you walk further out you can feel the room moving. There is also an opening in the floor so you
can look down. If you have a fear of
heights you don’t really want to walk out here.
When we left this part of the tour Terry got stopped and finally had to walk all the way back to the front to get his ticket taken care of. I am not going to be able to tell you everything in this house as there is just too much to see. The World’s largest carousel is housed here, there are a number of music rooms where the instruments play themselves, there is art, collections of things like Faberge eggs , music boxes, scrimshaw, carved ivory, toys and just about anything else you can image. I suggest you click on the slide show at the bottom of the post and look at all the pictures I took. I am going to post a few now.
We were soon back at our rigs and resting up for tomorrow.
Here is the slide show, all 106 pictures. Remember to click on it to make the pictures bigger
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