The 40-acre setting of this inn is aristocratic and the views exquisite. Rolling hills and mountain ranges reveal them-selves periodically as you drive up the winding, wooded road toward the crest of Huckleberry Mountain to the fieldstone manor house with its slate roof, cooper-mullioned windows, and arched oak door.
Built between 1932 and 1937 as a summer residence for mining tycoon and art collector Joseph Hirschorn, the house was modeled after Hirschorn’s château in southern France. After changing hands several times, it became an inn in 1985, and in 1990 it was bought by Ron and Mary Kay Logan, who own and man-age the nearby Sterling Inn.
The 40-foot-high Great Room, with a vaulted cherry-wood ceiling and a mammoth plastered-stone fireplace at each end, makes a spectacular restaurant. French doors with leaded glass open onto a slate terrace that has a sweeping view of the countryside. The guest rooms, named after European cities, have cypress and cedar walls and ceilings and are decorated in a mix of con-temporary style and French antique reproductions. “Venice” has an ornate headboard on its king-size bed. Baths have old-fashioned tile with pedestal sinks. The carriage house has two suites each with fireplace and whirlpool bath and two rooms; it is furnished like the manor house but the rooms are smaller. Although it is secluded, the carriage house feels new, which makes it not nearly as nice as the larger house.
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