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Due to a thick grove of old trees, several of them evergreens,
it is very difficult to get a proper look at the towered, three-floored
'Queen Anne' mansion that stands here. Most likely built sometime in the
1880s, it is the sole remaining Victorian-era lakefront estate-house. Its
original estate-wall, fully intact, is very visible. A glorious example
of Victorian estate-wall design at is creative zenith, this picturesque
composition effectively expresses the Victorian desire to blend with Nature
all that Man built in its midst. Carved at the crown of one of the posts
at the driveway is "Lake Cliff", the estate's original name. [An interesting
diversion from here would be to go elsewhere all along Lake Avenue to view
some of the more estate-walls that were spared the fate of the original
houses.] |
