KAinslie

I am the son of one of the more recent blacksmiths who worked on these doors! While not the originals, my father George Ainslie was hired to do a lot of restoration work on the Inn ahead of its 100 year anniversary in 2003. I was quite young at the time, but I know for a fact he made many of the patterned round boltheads you see on this door and the check in counter. Apparently it’s quite common for visitors to fuss with them until they come off and take them as a souvenir. He made similar heavy wooden doors for his shop and a few other private projects, though I know he was in awe at the craftsmanship of the Inn’s work. If you visit again and sit by the fire you will see the massive firescreens he made as near-perfect reproductions of the historic originals, and sit beneath the massive clock on the chimney stack that he helped repair.