The Essex Inn, with it’s stately colonnaded facade and it’s sweeping porch and balcony, has dominated the main street of this architecturally celebrated town since it opened for business in 1810. In those days Essex was a bustling port and ship building center that was served by fleets of canal schooners that carried goods from New York to Canada. But later, when the commercial activity was gradually moved to the railroad, the village became the romantic vacation destination that it remains today. Situated on a pair of picturesque harbors that provide accommodations and services for pleasure boats, and nestled between the lofty Adirondack peaks of New York and Vermont’s Green Mountains, Essex is in comparably beautiful during all four seasons.

 

 

A half block from the inn is the docking facility for the longest continually running ferry in the country, which has been conveying visitors across the lake since 1795, and is as scenic as it is convenient. The intimate and historic ambience of the main street of Essex and the inn’s magnificent facade are echoed in the gracious dining and colonial period rooms that exist through out the building. One of the two atmospheric dining areas features a welcoming fire place, and the other has an eighteenth century bar.

 

During the warmer seasons dining can be enjoyed in the sheltered gardens or at tables that are placed under the columned portico.

For overnight guests there are four rooms with private baths on the main floor, with three more located upstairs, as well as two additional rooms that share a bath.

The inn was featured by Yankee Magazine in the September 2002, and the June 2004 issues. The building has been the focus of the television series Restore America, and was named the best restaurant by Soundings Boating Magazine in 2004. Most prominently it was displayed in a book called Historic New York Architectural Journeys in the Empire State, published by Landmark Society.

 

bullet Living area: 7,491 sq.ft. (2 floors
bullet Covered Porches: 1,520 sq.ft.
bullet Utilities: Heat and hot water fueled by oil and propane. Water is from public municipal water system. Private septic system on site.
bullet Plumbing and wiring updated in 2000. Furnace is two years old.
bullet Turn key operation of inn and restaurant $595,000.00

 


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