Edifices and childhood

gigi-hawaii got me started on a trip down memory lane when she asked about my horse.
I grew up in a couple of mansions in Lake Geneva, WI. Stone Manor (now called Younglands) and Korean Village (now called Lakeshore Village). These are both historic homes and now condominiums. Stone Manor still sits on its acreage but Korean Village has been filled in with a street and more homes where I used to pasture my horse and practice barrel racing.

 

On the left is Stone Manor, which I referred to as "house on the haunted hill". I used to take the lakeshore path about a mile to get into town to go to the movies. Coming home in the moonlight was scary. On the right is Korean Village. We lived here 9 months out of the year because Stone Manor was too large to heat in the winter and the driveway was too long to keep plowed. The homes behind the main house are where my pasture (purple) used to be and the bottom end section (red) of the house was my horse's stable area. The houses in front of Korean Village are sitting on my barrel racing course and the small woods where I used to pretend I was an Indian.

The text about Stone Manor is not accurate but it gives you an idea about the place. I can still remember how it looked on the inside; it was a work of art. I visited it in the early 90's and was delighted to find the ground floor almost totally restored. The project manager gave me a couple pieces of marble from the old fireplaces which I shared with my mom- the dowager queen of the palace. She loved the house as much as I was afraid of it. Her love for the Creator made her fearless while all I could think of were bats in the basement and Vincent Price.

I found some information on Korean Village and an ad for one of the condo units. I wonder if it is my old stable?