Vignettes

Stephanie and Caleb Brooks were the first couple courageous enough to book a wedding at the Gufler Mansion during the summer of 2017. We we purchased the Ma...

Robin and Carlos were performing in Tulsa and made a small detour to visit Ross at the Cross House in Emporia as they traveled to Colorado for Thanksgiving. ...

Hope for the future has a friendsgiving at the Gufler Mansion! Polite, thoughtful, communicative, energetic and hungry these five young ladies had their ow...

We had a recent "empty nester" couple come to Emporia from Johnson County to visit their daughter who is attending ESU and they arrived on a 1951 Harley Davi...

Banana trees grew very well this past summer-the neighbors tell me better than most years and as a result, we have some baby bananas racing against our first...

For the second year, we have the privilege of hosting many of the participants of the DK Women's Bike Camp. The women's camp has been specifically designed ...

Sometime in the first year of our ownership of the mansion, Betty Stevens contacted us. Betty is one of the few remaining grandchildren of Albert and Mary G...

One of the joys of our Gufler Mansion experience is our interaction with college students as workers in the mansion. After over three years of serving overn...

This past weekend, the Gufler Mansion hosted Tim DeZarn, lead actor in Buckshot, a movie written and directed by Josh Smith, one of Emporia's sons who makes ...

As I mentioned in the July 3 post, we have had a number of talented ESU students help us with all the work the mansion demands. We were delighted to recentl...

Over the last three years, the mansion has hosted everything from a wedding proposal through all the usual pre-wedding events, the actual wedding ceremony/re...

Perla is such a delightful young woman as she seems to light up every room she enters and is so excited about her life. For her 15th birthday, her quinceane...

I wanted to show where the wedding reception was to be held in the courtyard east of the mansion and somehow the sunken garden just seemed to dominate the p...

Our first wedding on the front lawn took place this weekend. The bride was able to get dressed and "decorated?" (I believe that describes what happens in t...

Last week Susan gave a talk at ESU on food literacy. Her background in nutrition and years of working with food in various capacities has allowed her to und...

We have had the pleasure of hosting a number of top athletes at our mansion and have been surprised at the seemingly steady flow of talent who visits Emporia...

One of the realities that greeted us soon after starting the Gufler Mansion business was the work, the never ending work. Yes, we thought about it during t...