Eunice Kwasniewski has single-hand-edly worked miracles at this inn, a yellow-brick Queen Anne Victorian overlookingthe Tygart River Valley. She restored this cavernous place all by her-self(it took a fullyear and 438 gallons of stripper to remove the paint from the oak woodwork). She’s also restoring a 19th-century log cabin out back, a laborious process because 20-foot-long logs have not been easy to come by. Eunice envisions the cabin as a West Virginia crafts shop. The turreted main house was built by Elihu Hutton in 1901 and is surrounded by a big white wrap around porch, providing views of the valley and the Cheat Mountain range beyond. Two of the most desirable guest rooms are the five-window Paisley Room and the rather eerie third-floor Turret Room, complete with a mounted deer head. The inn is 25 miles north of Snowshoe Mountain Resort, the Mid-Atlantic’s largest downhill ski area. There’s also fine cross-country skiing, and in summer, mountain biking, rafting, hiking, and golf at Snowshoe’s Gary Player—designed Hawthorne Valley Golf Course.
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