The Trout Room

In the Trout Room (480 square feet), sunlight bounces off the wooden blinds as the Freeman Brook below your private porch changes its sound by the season. The most interesting thing about the water is what’s in it — the Brook Trout but forget about fishing in the Freeman Brook unless you are 14 years old or younger. In the corner by the window is a fly-tying desk. Hanging in mid-air over the fly vise are four fall brookies carved of wood by nationally renowned carver, Doug Guy. Feel the detail of the scales and imagine carving them. The big one is the state record Brook Trout plus 1/8 of an inch just for fun. Guy then went and carved that state laker caught in Lake Willoughby. It is hanging between the fly-tying table and the bedroom.

The ceiling over the fly-tying table is of cedar planking created similar to the old guide boats, cruisers, and canoes of New England fresh water. Attached to the end of the workbench is an early outboard motor made of aluminum. Back against the wall is our collection of paddles. There are four color lithographs in the room by Philip R. Goodwin, and on the wall by the woodstove is a 19th century oil painting of an Adirondack Camp Scene by Levi Wells Prentice. 

The bedroom is an octagon set within a square. At each turn, the ceiling beams are held by a tree–seven peeled beech trees, and the eight is an American hophornbeam or ironwood tree.  The root flares of each tree are set in river stones from the Warren gravel pit, a 100-foot-deep alluvial glacier deposit. 

Of course, the bed is the best part of the room. The headboard tilts slightly at an angle, ideal for sitting up in bed, reading, or talking. It is made from a single slab of pine cut from an enormous farm tree in Tunbridge. It has an oversized fiddlehead fern shape carved with various holes and shelves built in. A large fiddlehead form is also carved in one of the bed posts all by Jim Sardonis, a sculptor from Randolph. 

As a final notes, beautiful birch bark wainscoting was gathered by Chris Goulet of Warren from fallen trees of the Lincoln Gap. The mountain range in the shower above a jetted-tub is crafted of Vermont Verde antique marble from a quarry in nearby Granville–the only quarry in the world with this stone.

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