Grounds & Approach
Arrival among the pines: stone lodge, shingled cottages, gardens
A proper small inn rather than a single house: a stone lodge with a porte-cochere at the end of the drive, shingled guest cottages scattered across the lawn, and a timber-framed pavilion for dining outdoors, all set beneath a stand of tall pines.
Redwood Inn is built as a small compound rather than one building doing everything, the way an actual inn works, with separate structures for separate functions instead of a single roofline stretched to cover them all. The stone lodge is the public heart of the place: guests arrive under its porte-cochere at the end of a cobblestone drive, and a timber-framed pavilion off its side carries dining out onto the lawn. Its rough stone walls and slate-gray hipped roof give it the weight of a building that has been there a long time.
The guest cottages are deliberately lighter: shingle-clad, with deep front porches and big glazed gables, scattered across the lawn so each one gets its own garden and its own view of the trees. Inside, each cottage is one bright room with a dining table, a wood stove, and doors opening straight onto the garden. Tall pines rise through the whole site, and generous planting beds of flowers and ferns tie the buildings together into a single place, more like a settlement in the woods than a hotel.