Winifred's Room

"Panoramic view"

Winifred's Room hosts a queen-size canopy bed that beckons its guests to snuggle close and whisper tenderness. The clawfoot tub boasts a brass hand-held telephone shower. It is called a telephone shower since failing to re-insert the shower curtain back into the tub after a bath will result in water from the tub flowing down into the kitchen and ruining breakfast. Here’s where the telephone part comes in … once breakfast is ruined, Eileen will gladly use the telephone to make reservations for the entire house to have breakfast in town on Winifred’s account. A large private balcony offers the finest four-story view of our beautiful gardens and year-round Deer Creek. Not yet listed in the national register for most romantic places, Winifred’s Room should be … more marriage proposals AND acceptances have occurred here than in any other room in the house.

Winifred Malloy became the second mistress of the house when her aunt, Ida Colley bequeathed it to her in 1927. Ida and Winifred were responsible for the establishment of the Laurel Parlor #6 of the Native Daughters of the Golden West.