are looking for.“ I do the work,” Jack says of the garden, with a nod and a smile to Maryann.“ She supervises.”
The whole property is maintained with a great deal of care. Maryann’ s background in interior design shows in the coherence of each room— the 18th-century aesthetic held consistently throughout, repainted and refreshed over the years but never abandoned.“ We would never veer from that,” she says. While there have been mechanical and technological updates, the feeling of the place and time remain deliberately unchanged.
It is, in the end, a house that has been many things to many people over the centuries. The Orlandos are humbly its latest and faithful keepers.
The Guest Experience
From the moment guests arrive at the INN at Ormsby Hill, they know they are in for a personalized experience. There is no typical front desk transaction or key card slid across a counter. Jack and Maryann greet every guest face to face and make sure they feel settled before stepping away.“ One of the most important things when people walk through the door is we greet them and we sit and talk with them, so they feel comfortable,” Maryann explains.“ We don’ t just stand
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