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.
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 Laura Ashley plc, 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 1999. In 2002 and 2003, the company completed a $17 million improvement program which included three new buildings to bring the total room count from its original 41 up to 80. All renovations, the three new guest suite buildings, plus a number of outbuildings were designed by the architecture firm of Cooper, Robertson & Partners.
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Famous quotes containing the words inn, perry and/or cabin:
“The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)
“Dr. Scofield’s equipment, which you have just seen, radiated waves direct to Professor Houghland’s laboratory. When these waves came in contact with those the professor’s equipment was radiating, they created the interstellar frequency, which is the death ray.”
—Joseph O’Donnell, and Clifford Sanforth. Arthur Perry (Bela Lugosi)
“It was a very lonely spirit that looked out from under those shaggy brows and comprehended men without fully communicating with them, as if, in spite of all its genial efforts at comradeship, it dwelt apart, saw its visions of duty where no man looked on.... This strange child of the cabin kept company with invisible things, was born into no intimacy but that its own silently assembling and deploying thoughts.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)