The House on the Rock
The Start of Daily Blogging...
Monday/December/2008 01:28 PM
Okay...My New Years resolution is to start
regular blogging on Interior Design,
Architecture, Retail Home Fashions,
Furniture, etc, et. al. (my other
resolution is to loose the 40lbs that I
have gained over the past two years but
that’s a different story).
I want to start by posting some pictures of a very special and unusual house that we used to visit on vacations in Wisconsin when I was growing up in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. It’s called ‘The House on The Rock’ and it is in Spring Green, Wisconsin, near the Wisconsin Dells.
The builder and creator of the house was Alex Jordan, Jr. As the story goes, Jordan wanted to teach his neighbor Frank Lloyd Wright a 'thing or two about architecture'. The lesson started years earlier when Jordan's dad, a budding architect, had been dismissed at Wright's Taliesin School of Architecture, also near Spring Green, with the declaration, "I wouldn't hire you to design a cheese crate or a chicken coop." Soon after, the senior Jordan chose a pinnacle rock south of Taliesin to build a parody of Wright's fancy-pants architecture, a strange "Japanese house." The ceilings were dangerously low (padded now to accommodate tourists) and the structure seemed to cling precariously to the odd contours of the rock.
The home is filled with nook and crannies containing odd built in seats, light fixtures, and collections of things.
Today, the property has grown in to a Museum housing the world's largest Carousel, and over 200 acres of manicured gardens.
Hands down, the most architecturally interesting feature is the infinity room, which juts out 218 feet over the Wisconsin valley. It has 3,064 windows
I want to start by posting some pictures of a very special and unusual house that we used to visit on vacations in Wisconsin when I was growing up in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. It’s called ‘The House on The Rock’ and it is in Spring Green, Wisconsin, near the Wisconsin Dells.
The builder and creator of the house was Alex Jordan, Jr. As the story goes, Jordan wanted to teach his neighbor Frank Lloyd Wright a 'thing or two about architecture'. The lesson started years earlier when Jordan's dad, a budding architect, had been dismissed at Wright's Taliesin School of Architecture, also near Spring Green, with the declaration, "I wouldn't hire you to design a cheese crate or a chicken coop." Soon after, the senior Jordan chose a pinnacle rock south of Taliesin to build a parody of Wright's fancy-pants architecture, a strange "Japanese house." The ceilings were dangerously low (padded now to accommodate tourists) and the structure seemed to cling precariously to the odd contours of the rock.
The home is filled with nook and crannies containing odd built in seats, light fixtures, and collections of things.
Today, the property has grown in to a Museum housing the world's largest Carousel, and over 200 acres of manicured gardens.
Hands down, the most architecturally interesting feature is the infinity room, which juts out 218 feet over the Wisconsin valley. It has 3,064 windows
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