By Tom Crosby
Romance resonates through this magnificent Victorian bed and breakfast with 10 individually decorated and furnished rooms, each named after a famous Victorian writer.
There are no televisions or phones in any of the rooms, only a public observatory on the third floor with a spectacular view of Lake Glenville, with one television and one phone mostly never used.
A sweeping veranda overlooks terraced gardens and flower beds and is a gathering place before dinner for wine and cheese and after dinner for Irish coffee or a chilled mocha. The parlor, with a huge woodburning fireplace and a 20-foot high cathedral ceiling, exudes warmth in winter.
Elegance surrounds breakfast in the Victorian dining room, with lacy curtains, stuffed chairs, cloth-wrapped lamps and authentic cutlery.
Below is a second review written by Carol Timblin, a Go Magazine contributing writer.
Any lover of literature will relish a stay at Innisfree Inn...a Victorian bed and breakfast, a romantic lakeside inn at Glenville in the mountains. Its name is taken from "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats, and guest suites in the Garden House, a separate building from the main inn, are named for famous English writers - Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett, Emily Bronte and Charles Dickens. The suites feature two-sided fireplaces, garden tubs for two, and picture windows that overlook Lake Glenville and the mountains. Victoria's Grand Suite in the main inn is also a favorite with guests. (Rental cottages are also available.)
Host Henry Hoche welcomes guests with an afternoon reception and assists with dinner reservations. Upon returning in the evening, guests are invited to enjoy Irish coffee or hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps in front of the Count Rumford fireplace. Guests who stay in the main house are treated to an elegant candlelight breakfast int he octagonal two-story tower, and those in the Garden House have breakfast delivered.
Romance resonates through this magnificent Victorian bed and breakfast with 10 individually decorated and furnished rooms, each named after a famous Victorian writer.
There are no televisions or phones in any of the rooms, only a public observatory on the third floor with a spectacular view of Lake Glenville, with one television and one phone - mostly never used.
A sweeping veranda overlooks terraced gardens and flowerbeds and is a gathering place before dinner for wine and cheese and after dinner for Irish coffee or a chilled mocha. The parlor, with a huge woodburning fireplace and a 20-foot high cathedral ceiling, exudes warmth in winter.
Elegance surrounds breakfast in the Victorian dining room, with lacy curtains, stuffed chairs and authentic cutlery.
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