点评:This is about the Bed & Breakfast, not the Tour (separate review for the Tour)
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When Huguette Clark died in a NYC hospital in 2011 at the tender age of 104, the papers were full with her story and the story of her father:
William A Clark, teacher, lawyer, prospector, merchant, banker, senator, railroad builder and so much more, he was a true Pioneer of the Old West. Type the name in your favorite search engine and you’ll find all kind of stories, some good, some bad. Being a history enthusiast, I got very excited upon discovering that the Mansion he built for his first wife, Katherine, was now a bed and breakfast and I booked the Master suite without hesitation. I shouldn’t have.
The house went through different periods, and eventually was purchased in 1953 by a private party and opened as bed & breakfast. As it is now, the only original features are the walls and all the architectural details. It does not give you any idea of what it was at the time Clark was visiting it from time to time. There is a huge and I mean huge private collection of antique furniture, glassware and silverware, as well as all kinds of little Victorian miniatures, dolls, etc., but I think the spirit of the house has been lost. The bed easily fits in the top three most tortuous beds in my life, its cranky, weak springs make you turn and toss all night long and the pillows are huge rocks of synthetic material, absolutely impossible to sleep on. Breakfast was minimal, served in the formal dinning room. I wish I hadn’t gone. The only thing worth it was the Tour (separate review)
翻译:这里介绍的是这家民宿,而非旅游服务(旅游服务另有评测)。
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2011年,休格特·克拉克在纽约市的一家医院中去世,享年104岁。当时各大媒体纷纷报道了她的生平事迹以及她父亲的故事:
威廉·A·克拉克是一位教师、律师、探矿者、商人、银行家、参议员,还参与修建了铁路——他堪称西部拓荒时代的真正先驱。在您常用的搜索引擎中输入他的名字,就能找到各种各样的报道,有正面的,也有负面的。作为一名历史爱好者,当我得知他为第一任妻子凯瑟琳建造的宅邸如今已改成民宿时,兴奋不已,于是毫不犹豫地预订了主套房。其实我不该这么做的。
这座宅邸历经多个时期的变迁,最终于1953年被私人买下并改作民宿使用。如今,仅存的原始特征就只有墙壁以及所有的建筑细节罢了。这根本无法让人想象克拉克时常造访此地时这里的模样。那里有一个规模极其庞大的私人收藏馆,收藏着大量古董家具、玻璃器皿和银器,还有各类维多利亚风格的微缩模型、玩偶等等。不过我认为这座房子的神韵已然不复存在了。那张床绝对能跻身我人生中所睡过的最难受的三张床之列——它那不听使唤又不堪用的弹簧让人整夜辗转难眠,而那些枕头则像是由合成材料制成的巨大石块。根本没法入睡。早餐量很少,是在正式的餐厅里供应的。真希望我没去。唯一值得的是那个旅游团(另作评论)。