We
broke up our long drive with a few stops. Though slightly out of the way, Bill
found a route that added a few states where Barbara wanted to find letterboxes.
So off we headed to New Diggings, Wisconsin.
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| photo from Google |
The
letterbox was hidden behind the gas pump on the left. We also found a letterbox
in a cemetery tucked behind a little church in Iowa
and we found a letterbox the day before at a Hobby Lobby parking lot in Illinois. Now Barbara
has found letterboxes in all these states.
See
map before the trip.
As
we drove, Bill noticed a sign for a state park with a Frank Lloyd Wright house.
It looked interesting on the internet, so we turned around and headed for the
house. Lucky for us we got a tour to ourselves and lucky for us it stopped
raining. It rained pretty much all day except when we took the tour.
Cedar Rock State Park
in Quasqueton, Iowa has a well-preserved Frank Lloyd Wright
Usonian estate built for Lowell and
Agnes Walter. The house is one of the few examples where everything was
designed by Wright including the house, landscaping, furniture, dinnerware and
knickknacks and all has been preserved.
The
leaves of grapevines provide shade in the summer and light in the winter.
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| The main room with a river view |
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| boathouse |
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| Frank Lloyd Wright's signature brick |
