Exquisite Craftsmanship

In A Superb Natural Setting

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n n n THE STATELY, ELEGANT HOME at 14225 Woodlawn Circle in Elm Grove, Wisconsin, offers detailed, exquisite craftsmanship and a superb natural setting. Located in the Indian Hills Estates subdivision, this lovely 5,340 square foot home includes four bedrooms and four full and one half baths.

Included in the one-acre-plus lot of this treasured estate is a deeded section of a semi-private pond, Brookwood Pool, where owners will enjoy water-based recreation such as fishing, boating, and wintertime ice-skating. In addition to enjoying the pond’s natural beauty, peaceful moments of nature observation on the property reveal the daily presence of gentle wildlife—deer, ducks, turkeys, and swans.

Old growth deciduous trees including maples, elms and oaks offer a continuous palette of shifting beauty throughout Wisconsin’s four seasons. Garden terraces and a tranquil expanse of well-tended lawn surround this stone home.

The home’s exterior features a special blend of carefully selected Wisconsin stone with stucco and cedar trim accents. These materials operate in harmony with the home’s exceptional natural setting, creating a welcoming and unique home estate.

Along with the additional 100-plus homes in the incorporated Indian Hills subdivision, this home benefits from current parameters that govern and “maintain harmony in appearance” of the homes in this subdivision.

Mature deciduous and evergreen trees create a buffer of privacy for this beautiful home. An attached garage features three doors but interior space equivalent to a 4.5-car garage, offering additional space for a special vintage or sports vehicle to be stored and protected through Wisconsin winters. In-floor heat makes wintertime access to vehicles pleasant. The three levels of the home’s interior, like the entire garage, similarly feature a multiple-zoned hydronic floor heating system.

The home’s stately front entry radiates a welcoming solidity and security. Attractive bluestone over concrete covers the front porch landing leading to the waterfall glass and iron exceptionally thick, taller-than-standard knotty alder front door. A hanging lantern-style light illuminates the front entry door, while the rough-sawn cedar timbers and vaulted roof overhang shelters visitors from the elements.

A lovely kitchen on the home’s main floor offers stunning woodwork throughout. A gently arched cream-toned ceiling is accented by wood beams, and hand-scraped American cherry wood floors complement and warm the cherry wood cabinetry. A kitchen island offers additional workspace, topped by a black walnut wood countertop. Another countertop space extends out onto one side of the room, offering additional seating on bar stools for casual snacks or conversations. Granite counters accent the elegant durability of the kitchen’s food preparation space. Inset circular ceiling Halogen task lighting as well as under, over, and interior LED cabinet lights and a hanging lantern-like ceiling fixtures help to illuminate the room. The kitchen offers ample storage space as well, including a walk-in pantry with granite countertop and electrical outlet.

A welcoming hearth room and dinette conveniently adjoin the kitchen. Windows line the gently curved outer wall of this room, allowing natural light to enter and providing a restful view of the trees beyond. A gas fireplace on one end of the room further enhances the warm, inviting feeling created here. Just off this room, a balcony offers an ideal spot to enjoy a morning cup of coffee or tea, or to relax at the day’s end.

The home’s living or great room continues the exquisite craftsmanship, artistry, and warmth found throughout the home. Extensive windows along one wall offer a pleasing view of the natural world beyond throughout the seasons. Magnificent wood floors offer warmth. reminiscent of a grand mountain lodge. Tenfoot ceilings feature circular halogen inset ceiling lights. Family and friends will enjoy gathering here in the cozy glow of a natural stone fireplace in autumn and winter. The rough hewn oak mantel of this fireplace was crafted from one of the trees on the property where this home now stands, and so bears a special history that will continue to be enjoyed throughout the future.

In addition to providing ample space to relax, cook, and gather with family and friends, the home’s main floor includes two office spaces. One features a gently arched 11-foot beamed, vaulted ceiling and matching side main window with a subtle, classic arch design. The woodwork in this office, including ceiling beams, casing, windows and baseboard moldings, are attractive cherry wood. The second office space offers painted custom trim around the window, door, ceiling and at the carpeted floor’s edge. The white painted woodwork and cabinets highlight the artful warm-toned wall covering. The freestanding cherry wood desk with leather top and credenza with light bridge and glass shelves, by Harden, as well as the dining room set and other furnishings, are also available for purchase from this fine home.

The master bedroom on the home’s main floor offers a spacious, inviting haven in which to greet each new day or relax and luxuriate at dusk. Windows along the far pond wall curve gently, providing a peaceful view of the greenery beyond. The light neutral-toned walls and carpet in this elegant room create a warm and inviting ambience. This classic palette allows owners to personalize the space with favorite furniture, decorations and window treatments. A hanging chandelier light radiates elegant simplicity, while a gas fireplace further warms and illuminates the master bedroom.

The master ensuite bath includes sideby-side sinks and recessed cabinet mirrors containing power outlets with ample storage space below. Elegant polished nickel hardware complements the overall aesthetic of the room. The muted sage green color of the walls reflects an appreciation for the soothing hues of nature, while also serving as an elegant backdrop for warm wood and beach sand neutral tones of the tile floor and light-colored cherry wood moldings. The steam shower invites pampering, complete with a heated floor and seat. A heated towel bar further enhances the luxurious comfort offered by this room.

Included in the master ensuite bath is a beautifying dressing area, with artfully placed mirrors, a convenient counter space, and lovely symmetrical wood storage drawers and cabinets. A generous-sized, walk-in custom dressing closet adjoins this space, featuring immaculately designed custom wood storage cubbies, shelves and clothing racks. Closet spaces throughout this

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Isn’t that marvelous? There’s so much to unpack in it, but of special relevance today is his rather rough denunciation of “that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now.” This phrase expresses something that nearly all of us who teach history run up against. It’s harder than usual today to get young people interested in the past because they are so firmly convinced that we’re living in a time so unprecedented, enjoying pocket-sized technologies that are so transformative, that there’s no point in looking at what went on in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. To them the past has been superseded—just as our present world is forever in the process of being superseded.

While this posture may be ill-informed and lazy, a way to justify not learning anything, it also represents a genuine conviction, amply reinforced by the endless passing parade of sensations and images in which we are enveloped—one thing always being succeeded by something else, nothing being permanent, nothing enduring, always moving, moving, moving into a new exceptional Now. But it is a childish and disabling illusion that must be countered, in just the way that Dos Passos suggests.

Even in confronting the challenging questions of American history, most notably the existence of slavery, there are deep lessons to be learned. By the time of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the institution of slavery had become deeply enmeshed in the national economy, despite all the ways that its existence stood in glaring contradiction to our nation’s commitment to equality and self-rule as expressed in the Declaration of Independence. Hence there was real bite to the mocking question fired at Americans by British writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson: “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of slaves?”

How, we wonder today, could such otherwise enlightened and exemplary men as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have owned slaves, a practice so contradictory to all they stood for? As I write in the book:

There is no easy answer to such questions. But surely a part of the answer is that each of us is born into a world that we did not make, and it is only with the greatest effort, and often at very great cost, that we are ever able to change that world for the better. Moral sensibilities are not static; they develop and deepen over time, and general moral progress is very slow. Part of the study of history involves a training of the imagination, learning to see historical actors as speaking and acting in their own times rather than ours; and learning to see even our heroes as an all-too-human mixture of admirable and unadmirable qualities, people like us who may, like us, be constrained by circumstances beyond their control. . . .

The ambivalences regarding slavery built into the structure of the Constitution were almost certainly unavoidable in the short term, in order to achieve an effective political union of the nation. What we need to understand is how the original compromise no longer became acceptable to increasing numbers of Americans, especially in one part of the Union, and why slavery, a ubiquitous institution in human history, came to be seen not merely as an unfortunate evil but as a sinful impediment to human progress, a stain upon a whole nation. We live today on the other side of a great transformation in moral sensibility, a transformation that was taking place but was not yet completed in the very years the United States was being formed.

A related lesson of history is that acts of statesmanship often require courage and imagination, even daring, especially when the outcome seems doubtful. Take the case of Lincoln. So accustomed are we to thinking of Lincoln in heroic terms that we forget the depth and breadth of his unpopularity during his entire time in office. Few great leaders have been more comprehensively disdained, loathed, and underestimated. A low Southern view of him, of course, was to be expected, but it was widely shared in the North as well. As Lincoln biographer David Donald put it, “Lincoln’s own associates thought him ‘a Simple Susan, a baboon, an aimless punster, a smutty joker.’” Abolitionist Wendell Phillips called him “a huckster in politics, a first-rate, second-rate man.” George McClellan, his opponent in the 1864 election, openly disdained him as a “wellmeaning baboon.” For much of that election year, Lincoln was convinced, with good reason, that he was doomed to lose the election, with incalculable consequences for the war effort and the future of the nation.

To quote the book again: We need to remember that this is generally how history happens. It is not like a Hollywood movie in which the background music swells and the crowd in the room applauds and leaps to its feet as the orator dispenses timeless words, and the camera pans the room full of smiling faces. In real history, the background music