You can’t miss the Wedgwood Inn. This hip-gabled 1870 Victorian clapboard house on a tree-lined street is only two blocks from the center of New Hope, and it’s painted bright Wedgwood blue. It has a large veranda loaded with pots of flowers and hanging ferns, a porte-cochere, and garden walks that wind around to a gazebo. The companion prop-erty next door, called Umplebey House, was built ofplaster and stone about 1830 in the Classic Revival tradition. It has walls that are 26 inches thick, brick walk-ways through flowering gardens, and a carriage house in back. Across the street is another companion property, the Aaron Burr House, a six-bedroom Victorian with a maximum capacity of 18 guests, popular for business conferences.
Innkeeping seems a logical profession for owners Nadine Silnutzer and Carl Glassman, 14-year veterans of the B&B game. Theylike gardening, and they delight in finding antiques at auctions and flea markets. Carl, with his colleague Ripley Hotch, has published a book, How to Start and Run Your Own Bed & Breakfast Inn (Stackpole Books). He teaches innkeeping at New York University.
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