An entry for the #wednesdaywalk challenge hosted by @tattoodjay.
For today's walk, I finally stopped by a curious set of buildings I've been driving past for the past six months. I've driven by a hill that highlighted some old buildings on the hill line; from afar on the highway below, I assumed the buildings were an old convent or diocese. Instead, it turned out to be an area that housed a historic site.
The building was erected in 1859 and features limestone architecture. There are quite a few buildings in this area created by limestone; my maternal grandfather's birthplace, for example, still exists to this day and is constructed of limestone. It too is very old but survives to this day. The school, above, survives too.
I only had my Droid with me again, I wasn't able to get a whole lot of photos of the building's design. I did take a few photos however, as the group of older ladies stared at me from a nearby office's parking lot. Awkward!
This will definitely be a place I plan to come back to this summer. I think they offer tours of the building; this will be a fun historic tour to take when I'm not pressed for time. Work was a-callin' again today, so no fun for a Wednesday.
I have to admit, the #wednesdaywalk post always gets me thinking about visiting somewhere new. As I said, I must have driven these buildings, obscured by pine trees from afar, at least 50 times...today I finally decided to investigate. And sure enough, there was a historic treasure nestled away in the so called Garden of Eden of Wisconsin. Good stuff!
Thanks for stopping by to take a read and look at today's adventure. Hoping everyone else had a wonderful Wednesday too. Until next Wednesday!