Southridge Lodge was a large ranch home built in 1922 at the end of ridge road. Ridge road was a horse and buggy road at the turn of the century serving ranchers along the ridge that runs northeast and southwest out of Loup City. SouthRidge Lodge is nearly on the highest point in Sherman County overlooking the best rolling hills Nebraska has to offer. Dozen or more quarter mile pivot irrigation systems can be seen on the steepest most rugged corn and alfalfa fields anywhere. And from the Lodge you are looking down on most of those green fields. The Lodge has a half section for a backyard. Featuring two farm ponds at the end of tree-covered gullies or a shelterbelt both an easy walk through cover to ducks most mornings and evenings. Steep tree lined gullies in the North Quarter and two large Shelter belts are home to pheasant, grouse, turkeys, deer and coyotes.
The Lodge is all decks and patios. The 7X30 front porch features a knotty pine ceiling with 4" crown molding. The 25X25-cedar kitchen deck on the south side of the lodge is surround by wide steps to a large brick patio area, grass summit, and a tree cut from an original Johnny Appleseed tree. The 35X20 shooting deck overlooks the half section back yard, great for sighting that high powered rifle. The shooting deck accesses the back door of the lodge, via stairs south to the apple tree and north to the outdoor fireplace patio. Adjacent to the fireplace patio is the basketball court between the lodge and the Shelterbelt. The basketball hoop can be moved to the front of the lodge if the wind is out of the west and the 2 stall 30X36 garage with a cathedral ceiling can be opened up providing sheltered box seating for the more pampered hunter/fisherman. The view from those box seats is the view of the front yard, a sheltered breath taking view. The weathered hunter/fisherman can sit on the front porch and enjoy the ball game or the horse in the front yard corral.
Enter the lodge from the front porch and find a 15X30 foot great room featuring a natural gas fireplace and three 65" high casement windows, two 7' adjustable casement windows on the north and one 10' adjustable casement window on the south. The 9' ceiling is surround by 6" oak crown molding. Off the great room is the kitchen with custom oak cabinets, center-island and computer buffet. The 9-foot kitchen ceiling is surrounded with 4" oak crown molding. The eat-in kitchen also has a sliding glass door to the kitchen deck.
From the kitchen you'll find the 20X20 utility room with ceramic tile so the hard core hunter/fisherman can enter from the garage or shooting deck, leave the soiled gear at the washer/dryer and hop into the shower in the downstairs bathroom. Between the utility room and the backdoor is the pantry, we call it wally-world.
A second bathroom can be found upstairs. Like the down stairs bathroom it has ceramic tile, custom oak sink cabinets, and a large corner shower. Moreover, the upstairs bathroom has a newly refinished claw-foot bathtub with gold chrome fittings and a large red-oak combination window above the garage overlooking the shelterbelt.
The spacious master bedroom has two cedar lined walk-in closets with large Tupperware storage space behind the clothes. The master bedroom overlooks the front yard view from an adjustable 7' casement window. The south bedroom has an even larger cedar-lined, walk-in closet with added storage. A 7' casement window overlooks the backyard, the view off the shooting deck. The south bedroom also has a cedar-lined, walk-in closet and a large bay window over the kitchen deck with the breath taking south view.