A Stone Wall Inn is a bed and breakfast style modern inn, with ten rooms in two unique buildings. Lush gardens and 3 ponds abound the 12 acre property located at an elevation of 1900 feet in Southern Vermont's Green Mountains. A Stone Wall Inn is a year-round destination and is the perfect location for outdoor Summer and Fall events.
History
Begun in 1976, this speculative vacation house was inspired by Mesa Verde; an artificial cliff was built of rough masonry cavity walls on the north,east,and west sides and buried 12 feet into the ground on the uphill entry side. Various semi-defined spaces were loosely stacked within this boundary. At the bottom a curve "kiva" wall backs the living room with a small staircase descending to 2 bedrooms. Other sleeping areas are located in two upper lofts. The roof steps back to create decked terraces. Several arrays of reflectors bounce light into the south windows. A large fan draws excess heat from the top of the space into a rock bed under the living room which is reradiated at night. The rock bed also serves as a thermal flywheel in other seasons. Insulating curtains cover the glass at night. This house attempts an illusion of "an exterior", a village indoors, as a response to the harsh Vermont climate. In 1995 this house was remodeled to be an inn.
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Beginning in 1970 this house was built in Windham Vermont as a gut response to open the interior to the winter sun. It was an unadorned vernacular solar wall with references to early and mid-century modernism. Several additions were added over the years, with major changes in refinements beginning in 1998, commencing its conversion to an inn.
Your Hosts
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"Your project is one of the most artful events I have seen in a long time,and I look at a lot of art. Since seeing your project I have continued to think about the experience of all your incredibly intimate spaces installed in those sinuous structures with the sensibilities satiated down to the minutia. I find your commitment, purpose, scale, and sensual iconoclasm to be rich and mind boggling."
-email from Artist:
William Ramage
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