Unconventional artwork (to say the least) at the House on the Rock, an unpredictable, occasionally bizarre attraction near Spring Green in Sauk County, Wisconsin

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Unconventional artwork (to say the least) at the House on the Rock, an unpredictable, occasionally bizarre attraction near Spring Green in Sauk County, Wisconsin

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Opened in 1959, it is a complex of architecturally unique and variously, streets, gardens, shops and themes, from Christmas to a Japanese teahouse, designed by Alex Jordan, Jr. One room features what is claimed to be the world's largest indoor carousel. The "house" itself is atop Deer Shelter Rock in a forest nearby and additions and other buildings have appeared over the course of several decades.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-1).
Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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