Captain Stannard House
NYC Crafters 26 Mar 2012, 4:32 pm
Arriving from the train station, these scrapbookers know how to pack! Those small cases include all their personal and craft supplies for three days. New York City women rock!
We wooed them with every table in our Dining Room, breakfast, lunch, and dinner; and we were the ones graced. Want to see the menu? Menu_for_Crafters_Wkend Jim rocks, too!
Our Flag 25 Mar 2012, 8:17 am
Good morning, World of Gentle Readers,
We’re flying our new flag today. It’s an Annin flag: perfect for our Captain’s Inn. ”Really? And, why is that?” you ask. Well, the company began with Alexander Annin “sewing flags and supplying them to merchant ships from his sail-making shop on the New York City waterfront as far back as 1820″ – the same period that Elbert Stannand left for life at sea at the age of 14 for his lifelong adventure on merchant ships. We loved learning that.
Annin flags were also the flags for Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration and his casket; the flags flown for the opening of Yankee Stadium in 1923; the flags carried to the North Pole in 1909, the South Pole in 1930, and Mount Everest in 1963; the flag planted on Iwo Jima in 1945; and the flag erected on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. www.annin.com/annin.com/about.asp
Welcome 17 Jan 2012, 4:28 pm
We want to welcome you into our lives and tell you a little about what we’re doing with this blog. Whether you are Bed & Breakfast fanatics, leaf peepers, casual observers, former guests, or just stopping by from the internet, we want to welcome you to The Captain Stannard House.
On this blog, we are going to tell you a little about what goes on behind our doors, share some of the stories that we’ve heard, recipes we’ve tried, and try to give you a feeling for the house and Westbrook – both past and present.
We first saw the Captain Stannard House in January 2004. We had just come from a Caribbean cruise, followed by a week in Florida touring Inns and B&B’s. We fell in love, simple as that. And let me tell you, if you can love a place in the middle of winter, after a week of sun and shore, you know it’s the Real Deal.
Over the years, we’ve made some improvements, both major and minor, always aiming to maintain the character of this building and respect its many incarnations.
We weren’t the first owners and we won’t be the last; we’re caretakers just here to do what we can during our stewardship of this Westbrook landmark.