Lake Drive Mansions Tour Notes

Thursday, August 18, 2005 Rough and stormy weather tonight, but got in a tour of the Lake Drive Mansions long before any rains came. Mary Zarse of Historic Milwaukee, Inc. took the group out and she did a fine job. A stroke of good luck got us an invitation to come on to the Robert Uihlein Mansion grounds so that was nice to see that beautiful house from close up instead of just walking by on Lake Drive. The present owners invited the group to come and join them on the terrace overlooking the lake where they were grilling out and entertaining a small group of guests. That was certainly unexpected. A little further north on Lake Drive Mary was showing us the Stanley Stone Mansion from the street when the present owner came out to greet us and invited us inside to see the interior of that 1912 Mansion that the founder of the Boston Store, Stanley Stone, had built in the French Provincial Style. That was a real treat and again very unexpected. Got home before the rain even started. In the morning I found some house insulation in the yard that apparently fell out of the sky. They were reporting on the radio that material that became airborne after a tornado hit Stoughton had been falling out of the sky over a very large area.