About Us
What a joy it is to receive guests at The Fan House. Our hotel is proud to have received the high recognition as a Member of Small Elegant Hotels and has been awarded the SEH Quality Seal. Al fresco breakfasts, a perennial garden, a stream, birds a plenty and on a clear night a canopy of stars because we’re happily a dark sky place ... We hope you enjoy your stay in in this tiny corner of the world that time forgot.
A place with soul is bound to have a lot of history surrounding it.
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Were those bricks discovered in the attic really used as shields against Indian arrows way back in 1840?
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What about the gardens that were said to be the showplace of Barnard? (We’re working on bringing those back, by the way.)
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Vermont's first female lawyer lived here.
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A Vermont artist, Wm. B. Hoyt, lived here. (Today he commands six figures for his paintings, some of which fell out of the barn that was razed a few years ago. Those paintings now hang in The Fan House.
But today The Fan House is also about what it has become nearly two centuries later:
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Original floorboards measuring 18 inches from trees long obsolete
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Woodwork that speaks to the transition from simple cottage to the more ornate fin-de-siecle
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Textures of heirloom tapestries complimenting paintings gleaned from around the world
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Senses that luxuriate in 300+ thread count linens, down comforters and wrap-around bath sheets
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Relaxing massage treatments in the privacy of your own room
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Private yoga sessions
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Sensibilities reminiscent of a Mediterranean patois in the choice of fabrics and décor
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The Chateauguay across the steep incline to the brook, a close-to forest primeval
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Birch trees and perennial gardens
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Leisurely home-crafted breakfasts
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And much more than we can elucidate here.
The Fan House is also said to be a replica of a dwelling that once graced the property of nearby (a mile up the road) Twin Farms where author Sinclair Lewis and journalist Dorothy Thompson lived.