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.

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