Vermont Luxury Lodging Inn at Ormsby Hill Common Rooms

The Inn at Ormsby Hill has some of the finest common space that you will find in an inn.
With only ten guest rooms and given the quantity and quality of common space,
you will never feel cramped for a space to call your own.

Our front living room, which is always quiet and peaceful, features a commissioned bonnet-top highboy with slipper feet, designed after a Townsend-Goddard piece, as well as a comfortable sofa and relaxing chairs, which allow for viewing the fireplace. The fireplace, with its connecting operational Dutch oven, and the hand-hewn beams are all believed to be circa 1764.

A second common room, referred to as the Gathering Room, well deserves its name. This is where the largest fireplace in the inn is located (just one of 14!), which features the original iron cooking ware, circa 1764. Walls feature floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, containing many first editions and Ninteenth century books belonging to the Isham collection.

The Gathering Room always has classical music in the background. A six-board chest serves as the coffee table, surrounded by wingback chairs and an extremely comfortable sofa just inviting you to sit. Two leather wingback chairs surround a leather-topped library table, which Isham had originally used in his library. Some shelves are occupied by Ted and Chris's collections, including samplers, bunnies, and violins made by Ted's dad. Some of the hooked rugs made by Ted's mom are scattered on the floor. This is one of those rooms which feels like a good-fitting shoe.

The Conservatory never ceases to produce WOWs upon first viewing. It has a wonderful wood-beaded ceiling, with nothing but windows on two walls. The short wall, which is curved and faces east, is designed to make you feel as though you were on a river boat - but not just any river boat. This landlocked one has a fireplace with an ornately carved European mantel. It not only serves as our dining room but has a sitting area where you can watch the sun come up and the birds feed, all while listening to classical music. It also affords access to a very large slate patio and a wonderfully large, authentic Colonial porch (complete with a hammock), both offering wonderful views of the Green Mountains.

View of the Green Mountains from the lawn

Hidden away on the second floor is a small room which is a quiet place,
with a sofa and two wing chairs just to curl up and read a book.

Stay@OrmsbyHill.com
1842 Main Street · Historic Route 7A
Manchester, Vermont 05255
800-670-2841 · 802-362-1163
Fax: 802-362-5176

Manchester VT Lodging

Manchester, Vermont 800-670-2841

Manchester, Vermont
800-670-2841