PROFILE

HOW MOLLY HARDIE CRAFTED KESWICK HALL .

By DAVID EISEN

’ s not the destination , it ’ s the journey .” There ’ s a modicum of truth to the Emerson quote when the journey ’ s end is Keswick Hall in Virginia . The luxury resort is located amid the bucolic , rolling-hill tapestry of the Blue Ridge Mountains and is only a “ Wahoo ” cry away from Charlottesville and the

University of Virginia .

Sure , the well-heeled traveler can copter in , but what ’ s the fun in that when driving the two hours from Washington , D . C ., allows for a jaunt through “ the Eden of the United States ,” as once described by Virginia ’ s most famous son , Thomas Jefferson . When the landscape has been dubbed a “ Journey

Through Hallowed Ground ,” you know you are in God ’ s country .

And if by providence , just off Route 22 is Keswick Hall , an 80-room resort that went through many iterations before settling in as a hotel . The property dates to 1912 when it served as a manor house . Years later it became

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