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After more than seven years of planning, The Inn at Little Washington has officially opened its hotel rooms for overnight guests.
Eight rooms on the second floor decorated by Joyce Evans, designer for the Royal Family of England, convey the mood of a grand country house. Each room is sumptuously furnished with English antiques, wallpapers and fabrics.
Walls are marbleized and grained by Malcolm Robson, the English painter whose work includes Mount Vernon and the British Embassy as well as The Inn’s dining and reception rooms.
Each bedroom is totally unique. All contain entryways, dressing rooms and white Italian marble bathrooms with heated towel racks from England.
Streetside rooms each contain bay windows with upholstered window seats while rooms on the garden side each feature balconies overlooking The Inn’s water gardens and lily pond. Since the rooms are usually occupied, drawings of each room have been placed in the hall so that visitors may see what the rooms look like.
During the planning stages, The Inn’s owners, Patrick O’Connell and Reinhardt Lynch, made a study of the twenty greatest hotels in the world including The Oriental in Bangkok and The Peninsula in Hong Kong as well as England’s Country House Hotels, extracting from each what ideas and amenities they felt most essential.
The Mobil Travel Guide has made an official inspection and The Inn, as “A Country House Hotel,” will appear in their upcoming publication. Travel and Holiday Magazine has honored The Inn as “One of the Outstanding Restaurants of the World” for 1985. The Baltimore Sun Newspaper will feature a color photo essay on The Inn on Easter Sunday.
Harold Green, a veteran of six years at The Inn, has been named Hotel Director. Dorothy Southard is Chief Housekeeper. Carolyn Pullen and Heidi Morf are breakfast chefs for The Inn’s guests, offering a cold buffet of fresh juices, homemade granola, vo
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