Our final stop on the way home was at Alex Jordan’s House on the Rock. When we entered the building, it seemed like any other museum. The entrance was clean and contained a gift shop, and it was quiet and calming with a fountain. The first building you enter into contains information about Alex Jordan, the man who built the House on the Rock. He began the process by carrying bucket loads of building materials up the rock by himself. He was an eccentric man, and he decided to build the house, because he wanted to have a place to display his interesting collections throughout the years, caring nothing for what others thought about it.
Once we exited the main building, the thrill ride began. Jordan had collections containing hundreds of dolls and doll houses, a room full of circus displays, different types of armor, and three full sized carousels! One section, as we walked in, opened up into a huge room containing a life-sized whale a giant squid!! It reminded me of Moby Dick, and it was incredible to see the recreation of a battle between two massive beasts. Another section contained different cars he had collected through the years. Just as we finished one trip through wonderland, we entered another. The carousels were huge, containing odd creature combinations of people and animals. It was as though we had fallen into the rabbit hole walking through this odd collection of wonders!
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June 2020
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