Inn At Perry Cabin

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hotel_name = Inn At Perry Cabin


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location = flagicon|USA St Michaels, Chesapeake, Maryland USA
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opening_date = 1999
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operator = Clive O’Donoghue, (General Manager) Chef Mark Salter, (Executive Chef)
owner = Orient-Express Hotels
number_of_restaurants = 1
number_of_rooms = 80
number_of_suites = 25
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website = http://www.perrycabin.com
footnotes =The history of the Inn at Perry Cabin dates back to the colonial era and the site of the property was one of the original land grants from the English Crown to the New World.

The original Inn, built in 1816, (now the north wing of the manor house) was designed and built by Purser Samuel Hambleton, a War of 1812 Navy veteran and aide-de-camp to Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. The Inn, named after the renowned Perry who is famous for his declaration, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours,” was built to resemble the Commodore’s cabin (‘Perry Cabin’) on the flagship U.S.S. Niagara. [ [http://www.hamiltongensociety.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=2 Hamilton Gen Society] ]

The property's usage changed over time from a private home to a working farm, and then again to a riding academy.

In 1980 the Myerhoff family of St. Michaels, who established a comfortable six-room hotel with a small restaurant, converted it into a lodging facility for the first time.

In September 1989, global entrepreneur and co-founder of the Laura Ashley Company, Sir Bernard Ashley, purchased the property. He then began a two-year expansion that transformed The Inn at Perry Cabin into a 41-room luxury hotel.

Orient-Express Hotels purchased The Inn at Perry Cabin in May of 1999. In 2002 and 2003, the company completed a $17 million improvement program which included a new wing to bring the total room count up to 80.

Restaurants

The main restaurant of the Inn at Perry Cabin is called Sherwood’s Landing and is located on the ground floor overlooking the Miles River. Under the culinary direction of Master Chef Mark Salter, Sherwood's Landing is the only four-star, four-diamond restaurant in Maryland.

Trivia

* The Lighthouse cupola that sits atop Sherwood’s Landing restaurant is a replica of the lighthouse at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum who is The Inn’s neighbor.

* The little town of St. Michael’s has close romantic ties to Hollywood that date to the 1920s. It was the site of the Fay Wray and Gary Cooper 1928 silent film The First Kiss, which featured glimpses of The Inn at Perry Cabin. It was during filming that Fay Wray married screenwriter John Monk Saunders of Hollywood. Fay Wray was 20 at the time.

* The Inn at Perry Cabin has collected a wide range of books housed in bookcases throughout the property for guest’s enjoyment. Some highlighted titles include: a 1914 edition of "The Pathfinder" by James Fenimore Cooper, a 1944 edition of "The Sun is My Undoing" by Marguerite Steen (this edition is produced in full compliance with all War Production Board conservation orders), a 1937 edition of "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, and a first edition of "City Ballads" from 1886, by Will Carleton.

* The hidden doorway in the old building of the Inn at Perry Cabin dates from 1816 and originally joined the library and the morning room and is believed to have always been disguised as a bookshelf.

* Room 37 is known as the “Crooked Door Room.” Dating to 1816, the room’s doorway was never built square and stands today as it was when originally built. It is the smallest room in the house.

* Celebrities who have visited The Inn at Perry Cabin include: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Liz Taylor, Tom Selleck, Nicholas Cage, Robert Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher, Jane Seymour, Christopher Walken, Rachael McAdams, Isla Fisher, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Jean-Marie Messier and John Major.

* The Inn at Perry Cabin was the site of the main wedding reception in the film The Wedding Crashers [ [http://www.imdb.com/List?endings=on&&locations=The%20Inn%20at%20Perry%20Cabin%20-%20308%20Watkins%20Lane,%20St.%20Michaels,%20Maryland,%20USA&&heading=18;with+locations+including;The%20Inn%20at%20Perry%20Cabin%20-%20308%20Watkins%20Lane,%20St.%20Michaels,%20Maryland,%20USA IMDB "The Wedding Crashers"] ] , starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn

References

External links

* [http://www.perrycabin.com Offical Site of Inn at Perry Cabin]
* [http://www.orient-express.com Orient-Express Hotels]