After lunch at the Wright visitor center, (they now have a culinary school) we headed just down to The House on the Rock.
This is a a site created by Alex Jordan, a Madison resident, who started building a house on a rock out in the country. Over the years, he kept adding and adding and adding to it. Over time, he added various buildings, built the worlds largest carousel, and kept building places to display the large quantity of things he’d collected over the years.
The house is just a very weird creation. The layout is crazy and it seems like he just kept adding rooms at will. Many of them have less than 6ft tall ceilings (covered in carpet to help with head knocks). In 1985 he added the “Infinity Room” which is a 140ft cantilevered room sticking out of the side of the house.
We just did Section 1, as doing all three section appeared to take up to 5 hours. We’re both glad we stopped when we did.
Its definitely not boring, but it’s clear we probably don’t ever need to see it again.
There are walkways like this between all the buildings
A living room in the house
Travis at entrance to the Infinity Room
A picture showing how far the Infinity Room extends
Doug in another living room, this one with lots of eagles
This is one of several nice gardens on site
Much of the house has had the windows covered in blue plexiglass to make it possible to see all the Tiffany style lamps