Ye
Olde Manor House Bed & Breakfast
has four bedrooms, two with private bath. We also have a spacious guest
living room, porch and dining room, and when weather permits, we have
two patios for your
use.
Ye Olde Manor House is only an
hour and thirty minutes
from Chicago, and closer to the North Shore!
We are directly across the road from Lauderdale Lakes,
and only five to twenty minutes from three excellent golf
courses.
A View of Lauderdale Lake from the
Driveway
of Ye Olde Manor House.
Relax, Renew, and Rejuvenate
at
Ye Olde Manor House.
Luxuriate in our four well-appointed guest rooms surrounded by
beautiful antiques indoors and three acres of lush greenery and
lovely gardens outdoors. Enjoy delicious breakfasts prepared with
the freshest ingredients. Vegetarian, vegan and special diet meals
are happily prepared upon request. Located just outside of Elkhorn,
Wisconsin and across the road from sparkling Lauderdale Lakes,
Ye Olde Manor House
is the perfect spot for a weekend getaway or a week long retreat. We
have access to a sandy beach on nearby Pleasant Lake, a boat launch
on Lauderdale Lakes, and biking and hiking in the nearby Kettle
Moraine State Forest. Alpine valley, only minutes away, offers
downhill skiing in the snowy winter months and a renowned music
venue in the summer. There are several stables nearby where you can
go horseback riding. Quaint towns with interesting antique shops,
friendly cafes, and wonderful markets are just an easy drive away.
There are many fine restaurants within a short drive and the Friday
night fish fry is a local tradition.
Our goal is to help you live a charmed life during your stay with
us. Antiques’ aficionado, music lover, wine connoisseur, interested
in learning Qigong, want a 'Big Chill' weekend…? We can develop
customized weekends for you and your friends so that you can pursue
your hearts’ desires during your stay at
Ye Olde Manor House.
Relax
in our living room with a book from our library,
watch a movie on
the satellite TV,
or play our baby grand piano.
About the Innkeepers
John and
Karen grew up in the Midwest but moved to the East coast in the
1970s. In 2006, we decided that we wanted to move to a small town in
the Midwest so that we would be closer to our families and have a
more relaxed lifestyle. We also decided to pursue our longstanding
dream of owning a bed and breakfast establishment. In October 2007,
John retired from his job as an associate housing court attorney,
Karen became a telecommuter with the Aspen Institute, we sold our
Victorian home in Brooklyn, New York (that we’d spent eight years
restoring and renovating), and moved to
Ye Olde Manor House.
We enjoy old homes and have restored, renovated, and redecorated
this charming English cottage. We installed a new kitchen. We
refinished the maple floors in the living and dining rooms, and
installed new oak floors in our four guest rooms. We painted and
decorated throughout, using antiques from our Brooklyn home and from
a local Elkhorn antique store. We love gardening, and managed to do
a bit of landscaping before the ground and the world, as we know it
froze. We planted over 400 tulip, daffodil, and crocus bulbs, as
well as peonies, hydrangeas, honeysuckles, and dwarf evergreens. We
are planting an English garden, a vegetable garden, a fruit orchard
and several more flowerbeds filled with hollyhocks, foxgloves,
delphiniums, pansies, four-o-clocks, and other cottage garden
flowers on our three acres now that the ground has thawed.
John loves water features; he maintained a 110-gallon saltwater
aquarium at our home in Brooklyn. While we don’t have quite as large
an aquarium here, we will be installing a freshwater pond on the
property this summer. Karen loves reading conspiracy theory novels
and watching comedies, so you can expect to find some of the most
gripping novels and funniest movies in our living room library
available for use during your stay with us.
Our goal is to live fully, laugh often, relax, and enjoy life in a
retreat like setting. Our motto, quite simply, is to treat our
guests as we like to be treated…low VOC paint and beautiful art on
the walls, wireless internet, no minimum night stay requirements,
natural fabrics throughout—silk and cotton drapes, wool rugs, high
thread count cotton bed linens, thick and fluffy cotton bath towels
and robes, delicious breakfasts with many choices at the times we
wish to eat…We feel that we’ve achieved our goal at
Ye Olde Manor House
and we look forward to making your visit as enjoyable as possible.
Find us
easily.
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