has eight bedrooms, all with private baths. We have several spacious gathering spots - a spacious living room with a satellite TV, DVD player, and library, a comfortable dining room, a very large great room and an Atrium with an indoor water garden.  We have an indoor heated swimming pool surrounded by a spacious deck and comfortable furniture.  We also have two terraces and two patios for your use, and seating throughout our gardens.
 

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 eight well-appointed guest rooms surrounded by plush furnishings and beautiful antiques.  Stroll around our three acres of lush greenery and lovely gardens. Relax by our outdoor and indoor Koi ponds and swim in our indoor heated swimming pool.
 

Enjoy a swim in our indoor heated Swimming Pool.

Enjoy delicious breakfasts prepared with the freshest ingredients. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten free 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, 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 stables nearby where you can go horseback riding and we are in close proximity to several golf courses. 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. We have several gathering spaces that are ideal for meetings, retreats, scapbooking, quilting, and the like. For more information please call 262-742-2450.  We can develop customized visits so that 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. During our first year here, we installed a new kitchen, refinished the maple floors in the living and dining rooms, and installed new oak floors in three guest rooms. We painted and decorated throughout, using antiques from our Brooklyn home and from local antique shops and fairs. We love gardening and managed to do a bit of landscaping when we moved here before the world, as we knew it, froze.  We planted over 400 tulip, daffodil, and crocus bulbs, as well as peonies, hydrangeas, honeysuckles, and dwarf evergreens. We planted an English garden, a vegetable garden, a fruit orchard and several more flowerbeds filled with hollyhocks, foxgloves, delphiniums, pansies, four-o-clocks, roses, and other cottage garden flowers on our three acres.  During our second year here we added four more guest rooms and an indoor heated swimming pool. Now we can accommodate up to 20 people and our guests can swim during the summer surrounded by views of our gorgeous gardens, and during the winter can do so while watching the sun or moonlight reflect on the snow.

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 do have several water features.  We have a 55 gallon saltwater aquarium in our great room, a water garden in our atrium, and a koi pond across from the swimming pool. 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 lovely, retreat setting. Our motto, quite simply, is to treat our guests as we like to be treated…beautiful art on the walls, wireless internet, gorgeous antiques balanced with traditional new pieces, high thread count cotton bed linens, thick and fluffy cotton bath towels and robes, and delicious breakfasts. 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.

Ye Olde Manor House is only forty minutes from Milwaukee
and an hour and thirty minutes from Chicago.
We are directly across the road from Lauderdale Lakes,
and only five to twenty minutes from three excellent golf courses.

Karen Fulbright-Anderson & John M. Anderson, your hosts