Historic House at Rosslyn

At the heart of this adventure (and our lives since 2006) is an historic house, a homestead really, located on the Adirondack Coast of Lake Champlain in Essex, New York. Dubbed Rosslyn by the William D. Ross family who built her circa 1820-3 (and still known as Rosslyn two centuries later), this stately lakeside property is our old-house-new-home.

Susan and I took a leap of faith (and foolhardy risk) in 2006 when we decided to purchase Rosslyn with a half-baked dream of transforming the tumbledown property into our home. Two, three, maybe four years later we planned to sell the historic house and leap into a new adventure. What could *possibly* go wrong with this plan?!

The posts below invite you into the almost 2-decades of slow-and-steady historic rehabilitation of our historic house. Rosslyn’s 2-century history as a residential sanctuary (and even as the Sherwood Inn) are gathered here in the form of personal anecdotes and historic artifacts, eclectic glimpses into the story of this iconic Merchant Row property.