Creating the House on the Rock

I received some inspiration when I was young while studying a house built by Frank Lloyd Wright. When my father showed his plans to build a women’s rooming house to Wright, he was told that he would not be hired to build a chicken coop. I decided to build the house on Deer Shelter Rock in Wyoming Valley. The rock that would later support my house was on a farm. I bought the rock area from Oscar Christianson for $300. Later, I bought the whole 240-acre farm for $12,000. I put a lot of hard work and collections into the house. I would do research on what was unique and hard to find and then I would go get collections among collections and put them into my house. There were hundreds of workers that I hired to help me build my house. I was not building the house for money or for fame, but rather to put my dreams and talents to work and grant people happiness and joy. A great majority of the money I made from allowing people to visit the house was put back into the house so that I could expand. I remember pretending to be the janitor or electrician in the house watching people’s reactions to what they saw.