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Blue Hill Properties aims to bring a new level of discreet, informal luxury for travelers and locals seeking to immerse themselves in the beauties of place.
Our Mission
Blue Hill Properties draws deeply from the traditions of place--the dry-laid stone walls of Vermont, the rocky shores of foggy Maine, the moody crags of the Scottish Highlands--and hybridizes this with a unique aesthetic that draws on its founders' decades of travel experience, incorporating the rural elegance of England's Cotswold coaching inns and southern France's auberges. Intimacy, elegance, and a profound rootedness in place define the ethos of Blue Hill Properties, as does a commitment to casual fine dining land an easy-going engagement with beguiling fine and decorative art.
“Like visiting your most stylish friends in the country, if your friends are partial to remarkable views, plush down-filled sofas, Frette linens, and extraordinary American art.”
Corporate Goals
Opening select properties that fuse design-forward country house comfort with the casual ease of one’s favorite gastropub.
Combining history with today's amenities and technologies.
Integrating historic and contemporary fine art into the casual luxury travel experience.
Surpassing the new class of small hotel groups through a powerful rootedness in place.
Merging old with new, antiques with designer flair, for a distinctly memorable experience.
Fostering intimate travel experiences of distinction for the affordable luxury market.
Creating and sustaining a commitment to excellence in all things.
Helping to preserve architectural and landscape legacies.
CONSULTING
Blue Hill Properties is also pleased to advise other hospitality properties about brand development, identity, marketplace positioning, and marketing. Contact us for details.
property Vision
More refined country house hotel than bed and breakfast inn, the inn seeks to combine the grace notes of a classic coaching inn with an easy, contemporary English style, with a special emphasis on the arts and letters—piquing all the senses. From its common rooms for reading, playing games, or imbibing house cocktails to its farm-to-fork restaurant featuring casual white tablecloth dining to its rustically intimate spa, the inn provides a memorably refined but accessible experience for all guests and acts a gathering place for locals and travelers.
Fusing the ease of a quirky country house with a bit of Cotswold grace, from arrival the inn beckons with the flickering shadows of gas lamps. English, French, and American antiques decorate the public rooms and guest rooms, where dark saturated tones, Scottish tweeds, and French toiles are set off by timeworn hardwood floors. Guest rooms feature deep copper soaking tubs or steam showers; many feature gas fireplaces.
The kitchen prepares regionally infused, farm-to-fork ingredients in a contemporary regional style, whether in the casual fine dining ambience of the restaurant, the more informal bistro style of the bar, or the outdoor wisteria-draped terraces—perfect for sunset cocktails. Breakfasts are hearty, three courses, concluding with a cooked savory or sweet course; coffees are the finest local roasts. A stone-edged swimming pool and beautiful perennial borders highlighting native plants encourage lingering without leaving the inn’s landscaped grounds.
Throughout the inn, the walls are lined with historic and classic contemporary art. Visiting authors, poets, historians, and musicians lead weekend salons to complete the feel of a lively riverside chautauqua in a classic inn setting. For those with more adventurous days in mind, the nn offers sporting packages from hill walking to bike touring to horseback riding to ballooning, after which the plush fire-lit comforts of Frette bathrobes and hand-loomed woolens await.
In seamlessly melding old with new, vernacular with contemporary, the Inn will afford guests an experience that is inescapably and memorably authentic.
