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New
Hope's
Umpleby
House Bed and Breakfast Inn is
a Classic Revival plaster-over-stone manor house, listed on the Registry
of Historic Places. The stately Bucks County home was built in
1833 by William Umpleby, New Hope’s prominent mill owner. He
built the current structure on top of a pre-Revolutionary War era
foundation.
The
original structure served as a headquarters house for 6 years for
General Washington's Continental Army and its surrounding acreage served as a
bivouac site for over 1200 men for 10 days just prior to Washington’s famous
crossing of the Delaware River on Christmas Eve, 1766. That site,
one mile south of New Hope, is now the internationally famous Washington
Crossing State Park.
A
Victorian-era addition was added to the rear in the late 1880s by owner
Colonel Buckley. Your hosts, Carl and Nadine Glassman purchased and
renovated Umpleby House in 1985 converting it to the 8 bedroom upscale,
luxury inn it is now. They also added the fanciful three-tier
Victorian porches in 2001.
 The
spirits of Colonel Buckley and Mr. Black, Mill foreman under original
owner Umpleby, can still be seen and heard throughout the
Inn...
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Features |
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View
of Fields, Creek &
Wooded Hillside
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2
acres of Lush Lawn, Flowering Gardens, Brick Paths and a Gazebo
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Smoke-Free Environment
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Off-Street Parking
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Meeting Room for 3-30
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Common Room Exclusively for House Guests
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In
Historic District, just
two blocks from Town Square
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Open Year Round
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Continental Plus Breakfast
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Guest Refrigerator & Pantry
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Cable TV (8 of
8 rooms, some with DVD players)
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In-room Telephones with Voicemail
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Wireless Internet Access
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Air Conditioned
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24-hour Resident Innkeeper
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Handicapped Accessible
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Hard-wired Fire Alarm monitored by a
Central Station
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And,
of course...
Welcoming
refreshments and home baked goodies are served on your arrival. An
Afternoon Tea is also served on Saturday afternoon. Our
complimentary breakfast is served daily in our dining room, or upon
request in the privacy of your room.
Call to arrange special services like... an In-Room Massage or a visit to a Day Spa, a custom Gift Basket or Snack Tray, a Special Flower Arrangement, a Horse Drawn Carriage Ride or a Hot Air Balloon Ride.
We can also arrange for a Day of Golf. We have yet to receive a special request we could not meet! *Our
guests enjoy privileges at a private Swim & Tennis Club and Health
Club too. (one minute drive: 6 pools, snack bar, tiled locker
rooms and tennis courts, daily fee)
The Wedgwood Inn also offers free local calling from your room phones,
and intercom capability between rooms too. In addition, we have free
WiFi access from your sleeping room, all our public rooms as well as
from our Victorian porches and Gazebo.
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Our Other Inns
Umpleby
House is
one of three properties in the Wedgwood Collection of Historic
Inns.
We have been called the "quintessential American B&B's,"
known for friendliness, warm hospitality and attentive service.
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1870 Wedgwood
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1873 Aaron Burr House
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Umpleby is our Wedgwood House, which offers larger meeting space and nine luxury sleeping
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Across the
street is our Aaron Burr House,
which offers seven additional guest accommodations plus a meeting space.
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"We
loved...your gardens behind Umpleby, and the 'white' gardens with old
brick paths in front too. The pleasantness of the innkeepers, and
the place, the sitting room, the COFFEE! The Blueberry
Cheese Cake at Tea (I will always love you Dinie and Janet!). The
peace & quiet, the smiles. Carl's secret-recipe Almond Liquor
at our bedside, yum! We'll be back."
The
N...'s, Atlantic City, NJ, May '02
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We have been hosting guests since we made our dream come true to be
innkeepers in April 1982. Our Inn is a "collection" of
three 19th century houses, each with Resident Innkeepers who have been
here for many years. We (Carl, Nadine and daughter Jessica) live in
our own home in the back of our 2 1/2 acre property. All together,
Wedgwood Inns reflect the 1980's evolution of B&Bs in the United
States. It is often referred to as a 'quintessential American
inn'. Our story combines early (under age 30) career changes,
historic preservation, community participation, and a true interest in
people, antiques, and entrepreneurship. Once upon a time Dinie ran
statewide programs for senior citizens and Carl was a Project Director at
a Princeton-based think-tank. Their alternative career in innkeeping
grew rapidly to be a full-time commitment. After restoring the 1870
frame Wedgwood House, we purchased the neighboring Umpleby House
in 1985
and doubled in size to meet the growing demand for overnight lodging and
small business meetings.
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training
aspiring innkeepers by now and operating our Apprenticeship Program as
well: the oldest program of its kind in America (click
here to read US 1 Newspaper article). In 1990, Aaron Burr,
another frame Victorian, was renovated, adding to our 'collection' enough
rooms to accommodate family reunions and corporate retreats too. In
1994 a special 9 month project was successfully completed with the birth
of our daughter, Jessica. Tweety, a yellow male parakeet and Tootsie, a
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Dinie & Aspiring
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We cordially invite
you to be our houseguest in Bucks County and to explore New Hope and its
countryside as a traveler and not a tourist. Open year 'round and
set on 2 private, park-like acres in New Hope's Historic/Dining/Shopping/Entertainment
District, we look forward to sharing our warm, friendly and comfortable
inn with you.
Cordially, Carl, Dinie and Jes
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"We
try to deliver the New Hope experience to our guests," says
co-owner Carl Glassman.
"We
have the wonderful luxury of being in one of the most unique
villages in America, a small artists' colony, antique center and
dining and music capital -- all in one square mile along the
Delaware River & Canal. The
300 years of architecture is a destination itself and
has a natural draw, and the Wedgwood is steeped in the history
of the town as well, being the oldest and largest bed and
breakfast inns in the area. We strive to give guests the feel of
New Hope once they come to Wedgwood because we are part of the
character of the town....past and present." "We
treat all guests as royalty,” adds co-owner Dinie Silnutzer
Glassman. “As a
traveler, not a tourist; individualized attention to details,
service and fine hospitality.
That’s what we mean by “Wedgwood perfection in lodging
services.”
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