Prairie Manor in Goshen, Indiana

 

Prairie Manor in Goshen

Come enjoy the country and our English country manor style home. Situated on twelve acres of grass, shade trees, flowers, meadowland and woods, Prairie Manor was built in 1925, by Fred and Grace Nymeyer who grew up in Goshen. When Fred went away to college his roommate became ill and had to drop out. Fred helped care for his roommate and at graduation he received a gift from his roommate’s father--a seat on the Wall Street Stock Exchange. Fred and Grace moved to NYC where Fred became a Wall Street banker. They came back to Goshen often to visit family and finally decided to move back to retire. Julius Gregory, a NYC architect, designed Prairie Manor. He was known as one of the first transitional architects, mixing architectural styles. The living room replicates the builder's favorite painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art--an English baronial hall featuring a fireplace big enough to walk into. Mrs. Nymeyer’s favorite painting of a chapel inspired the twenty foot high Bombe window. The house has a third floor that at one time was called the ballroom. This is where the Nymeyer’s many guests did their dancing. It’s now “Grandma’s Attic” where you might find a treasure! Goshen is located in the center of Northern Indiana Amish Country. Middlebury is nearby with Das Dutchman Essenhaus featuring Amish cooking and craft and gift shops. Here you will find Amish Acres, an historic 80 acre farm where you can experience the Amish lifestyle. Theatre productions are presented in the Round Barn Theatre. Notre Dame University is just 50 minutes away in South Bend. While in Goshen visit the Old Bag Factory…a wide variety of shops housed in a restored 1890 factory.

These recipes are included in the cookbook and used by permission of Jean & Hesston Lauver: Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake, Cherry Coffee Cake, Fresh Vegetable Frittata, Peaches and Cream Coffee Cake 

This BnB (along with delicious recipes and wonderful stories) is featured in Sunrise Sunset Across America, Bed and Breakfast cookbook. Purchase it by clicking on the link in the upper sidebar. Click on the review to read more about it.