The House on the Rock

The House on the Rock, in Spring Green ,Wisconsin is very hard to explain. It's a must see that we first saw on the Travel Channel a few months ago but didn't realize we would be traveling so close to.

Alex Jordan fell in love with Deer Shelter Rock as a teenager. He would climb it just to have a picnic. In 1945 he started building his fantasy house atop this column of rock approximately 60 feet tall, and 70' by 200' on top.

Alex wanted to create an attraction that would impress, exhilarate and amaze all who saw it. Well, he sure did impress us. Austin and I were in awe over the size and scope of the huge collections of everything imaginable. Antiques, reproductions and illusion all amassed over Alex Jordans life.

The Infinity Room extends 218 feet over the valley, 156 feet above the forest floor with the last 140' of the room hanging in mid air entirely unsupported. There are 3264 window panes in this room and it was a little bouncy when you walked out towards the end. The floor of the room has a six inch incline from the entrance to the tip, designed so that when the room is full of people, the floor will be level.

The carousel was an awesome 30 feet high and 80 feet across . It had 20,000 lights and 182 chandeliers. Of the 269 animals not one was a horse.

There were rooms and rooms of collections. Dolls, doll houses, mechanical banks, armor, guns, calliope's, ship models, music boxes and the list goes on and on. Hundreds of carousel horses and a circus room with over a million miniature circus pieces.

The lighting was not too good for pictures so I have posted some of the better ones. It is recommended that you plan to stay 3 hours here, but Austin and I could not see all there was to see in that period of time. There was plenty of entertainment for the $28.50 ticket price.