Lake Pointe Inn Bed & Breakfast
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The Lake Pointe Inn has 10 rooms. Nine rooms have gas burning fireplaces and 7 of our 10 rooms have spa tubs.
Additionally, 3 of those rooms have balconies. There is a sauna and steam shower available for all guests to use.
Lake Pointe Inn of McHenry, Maryland offers all the comforts of a fine Bed and Breakfast at Deep Creek Lake with award winning appointments in the Arts and Crafts tradition. Lake Pointe is a luxury Inn perched on the water's edge of Deep Creek Lake's pristine 65-mile shoreline in the Lake Pointe Community of lake front homes in Garrett County Maryland. With an outdoor fire pit and wrap-around porch you are sure to relax and enjoy the Lake views of this Western Maryland Weekend Getaway Retreat. The Deep Creek Lake area is a most natural setting with four distinct seasons providing unique activities throughout the year.You will enjoy a daily afternoon cruise aboard the pontoon boat, kayaks, canoes, and bicycles - all available at your leisure. There is a community tennis court; bocci, croquet, and snow shoes on the premise for winter fun. After taking in the outdoors, the pampering goes indoors at our Deep Creek Lake Bed and Breakfast Lodge Retreat including a Massage room, Steam shower and Sauna. Join us for a truly unforgettable luxury lodging experience. The Lake Pointe Inn is perched just 13 feet from waters' edge on the 65 mile Deep Creek Lake shoreline. The Inn is just across from the Wisp Ski Mountain and Golf Course. Our Inn is situated on the Lake with a beautiful 2 mile view down Marsh Run Cove. All but one of our rooms have lake views and that room has a superb view of the Ski Mountain! Several of our other rooms have views of both the Lake and Ski Mountain. 
The centerpiece of Garrett County, 12 mile long Deep Creek Lake sits at the top of the Ohio River watershed, just west of the Eastern Continental Divide, at an altitude of 2500 feet. Garrett County, Maryland's westernmost, is unique and bears no resemblance to any other area of the state. The elevated Appalachian plateau features forested ridges, open farmlands, waterfalls, rushing rivers and swampy primeval glades. A delightful unexplained surprise of the Deep Creek Lake shoreline is near total absence of mosquitos, gnats and other biting insects.Garrett County's unique climate also bears no resemblance to any eastern urban area. Year round temperatures average 15 degrees below Washington/Baltimore and 10 degrees below Pittsburgh.
Summer days are mild with temperatures reaching a pleasant low 70s to mid 80s. Summer nights are comfortably cool in the 50s and 60s. Crisp autumn days witness brilliant foliage throughout October. First frost usually appears around October 1st and first snow around the end of October.
Old man winter arrives early, stays late and usually leaves behind 100-200 inches of snow. The lake will freeze to 18 inches and the frigid temperatures allow extensive ski-area snowmaking. Alpine skiing often begins in November and continues until mid-March and occasionally into April. Cross-country skiing is at its best just after one of the 15-20 annual snowfalls. Spring springs late at Deep Creek Lake. After enjoying the bloom of your home town Spring, come to the lake and experience it all over again from mid-April to mid-June.
Breakfast is included in the rate. It is a generous breakfast with a hot entree served daily.
We do serve dinner(at an additional charge) on our three night holiday weekends.
Our Inn dates back to the late 1800s but underwent an extensive restoration in the Summer and Fall of 1995. Our restoration provides all the comforts of a fine lodge. You can relax/read by our incredible stone fireplace in the Great Room or rock in one of our chairs on our wrap around porch and take in the Lake views! The Inn has been appointed in the Arts and Crafts tradition and is air conditioned. Each room has individually controlled heat, telephones with private number, private baths, down comforters and down pillows (substitutes will be provided for those allergic to down) -
The building was built by Jonas Glotfelty in 1889-1890, who acquired the large farm from his father in 1887. The ample farm house was top quality in its day. Prosperous farmers, the Glotfeltys were descended from Solomon Glotfelty who, as a small boy, emigrated from Switzerland in the 1730s. Switzerland of the 1700s was not the peaceful country of today. Mennonites were severely persecuted and many fled, with armed escorts, to the religious tolerance of Pennsylvania where they spread westward. Today, Garrett County has many Mennonite and Amish families, mostly farmers and craftsmen, all good citizens. In 1924, at age 80, Jonas Glotfelty retired from farming and gave the farm, after selling 56 acres to the Youghiogheny Electric Company, to his son in return for life support of the parents. The Youghiogheny Electric Company built the lake in 1925, flooding the 56 acres to within 13 feet of the house. The Lake Pointe Inn is thus the oldest building on, and the closest to, the lake which has over 1300 homes on the 65 mile shoreline.
The lake cove by Lake Pointe Inn was once the Buffalo Marsh, named after the buffalo carcass found mired there by frontier hunters in the 1700s when buffaloes roamed the area. Thus was named Marsh Hill, today's Wisp Ski Area, just across Marsh Hill Road from the Lake Pointe Inn.
The old farmhouse was renovated into a "modern" lake front vacation home with the 1939 renovation. Sam Leff, owner of Pittsburgh's 7th Avenue Hotel, bought the property in 1939 and proceeded with renovation. The job included installation of then modern plumbing, wiring and central heat. The great room, with massive stone fireplace, and dining room were created, with their wormy chestnut paneling and beams, in the mountain lodge style. James and Robert McCann, owners from 1950-1995, created an apartment in the building's rear but made little change to the 1939 renovation.
Present owners George and Linda Pettie acquired the property in April 1995 and immediately embarked upon a complete new renovation and conversion into a nine guest room, nine and one half bath, Bed & Breakfast Inn with innkeepers apartment. The great room was saved intact with its chestnut beams, columns and paneling as well as the oak flooring, nine foot wide stone chimney/fireplace and ten original windows. Chestnut paneling in the dining room was saved while the rest of the building was gutted inside and out. The architecture was preserved while all new custom quality mechanical systems, windows, insulation, commercial kitchen, interior and exterior surfaces were replaced, most in period style. A compatible addition expanding the innkeeper quarters, was built. The Inn and its 9 bedrooms are furnished in the Arts and Crafts tradition with custom made Mission style furniture, ironwork and pottery.
In July 1996, Georgine Reed (interior designer) and Linda and George Pettie were presented with the Design Award by the Washington Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers.
The renovation was completed in early 1996 and Lake Pointe Inn opened in mid-January 1996. The superior quality of the renovation provides Garret County's safest and most comfortable lodging establishment.
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"View of Great Room with Stone Fireplace"