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Mid-Coast Maine This handsome 1854 Greek Revival house originally was home to a prominent local shipwright and retains decorative reminders of the region’s maritime history, while affording B&B guests the comforts and conveniences of today amid quite a variety of room configurations. All is overseen by new innkeepers Jesse and Kristi Bifulco, who continued the gourmet breakfast traditions of their predecessors, while adding amenities to enhance the guest experience. Amid period architectural elements, all bedrooms now offer king, queen or twin hypoallergenic featherbeds, telephones with data ports, TVs/VCRs, CD-playing clock radios and free Wi-Fi Internet access. Some add fireplaces, private decks, and jacuzzi or deep clawfoot soaking tubs. The morning meal remains a highlight of the day. Served by candlelight at individual or shared tables in the dining room, it might begin, as ours did, with a compote of roasted peaches and plums with vanilla yogurt or escalloped baked apples with mixed fruit. The day’s main courses were blueberry pancakes, peaches and cream french toast, and a creamy egg casserole with white sauce and a baked tomato, offered with sausage or bacon and multi-grain toast. The treats continue in the afternoon, when sweets and beverages appear in the library, which also contains a guest refrigerator and icemaker. Tea and popovers may be served in the garden in season. The common rooms also include a comfortable living room, where the unusual soapstone fireplace warms chilly mornings and evenings. An adjacent deck overlooks a long back yard replete with flower gardens. Main-floor guest accommodations include the new
Chartroom Suite, whose paneled sitting room in front comes with
well-stocked bookshelves, TV/VCR and a gas fireplace. The rear room has
a mahogany queen arched canopy bed and french doors onto a private deck
next to the gardens. The bath includes a deep jacuzzi tub. Upstairs on the second floor are two guest rooms, each with queensize bed and sitting area, plus the Windrose Suite, a private hideaway with queen bed, sitting room, gas fireplace and clawfoot soaking tub. Nestled in the eaves of the third floor is the Dove’s Nest, renamed lately from the Crow's Nest after a mourning dove took up residence in a nest in the window box outside its window. Guests here enjoy a cozy two-bedroom suite with two baths and a shared sitting area. In the rear main-floor Coastal Garden Room, a favorite of honeymooners, light pours through a skylit cathedral ceiling to reveal walls papered in a Laura Ashley floral pattern, an off-white pencil-post canopy queen bed, a wicker loveseat and a gas fireplace. The rear loft of the restored barn has been recreated as the Quarterdeck, a large and airy space with cathedral ceiling, palladian windows and skylights, kingsize bed, fireplace, TV/VCR and jacuzzi tub with separate shower. Sliding glass doors open off the sitting area onto a deck overlooking the gardens and Mount Battie. We were happily ensconced in the Harbor Carriage
Room, an elegant, blue and white space on the main floor in the front of
the restored barn. A crocheted canopy bed, two wing chairs in front of
the fireplace, a TV/VCR and a clock radio with compact disc player
enhanced the room. The oversize bathroom added a clawfoot soaking tub
and a corner shower. Extras like a small sewing dish, a hair dryer and
three-way reading lamps were typical of innkeepers who care. Five rooms and three suites with private baths. Late June through October: doubles, $165 to $280. Late spring and fall: $140 to $240. January-April: $130 to $199. (207) 236-9656 or (877) 492-9656. Fax (207) 230-0433. E-mail: bnb@windwardhouse.com For more information: www.windwardhouse.com or biz@camdenwindwardhouse.com Reservations at http://rezstream.net/booking_guest/wfStep1_
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