Highlights

• Charming collection of rooms and suites with ocean and courtyard views
• Close to Carmel Beach, just one block away
• Coveted 3-Diamond AAA rating
• Privacy and personal service
• Close to village shopping and restaurants
• Relaxed, award-winning garden setting with landscaped terraces and courtyards
• On-site parking in a quiet residential neighborhood

Property Features

The hotel steps down from Carmelo to San Antonio streets through a series of grass and bricked paved terraces, offering many attractive garden, lawn, and sitting areas. Tree cover about the property includes mature cypress, pine, and a row of palms along the Carmelo frontage. The grounds are attractively planted with low hedges, shrubbery and flower beds.

Our property is made up of seven buildings scattered around beautiful award winning gardens that truly contribute to the eclectic juxtaposition of the facilities and setting. Visitors enjoy the inn's 26 rooms each with its own warm personality and many with views of the ocean.

Historical Background

Built and founded by the cultured and independent minded Mrs. Ida Theurer in the 1920's and 30's. Over the years she developed a considerable complex of cohesively designed and well sited buildings, modeled to blend visually with the predominant Colonial Revival style.

As an excellent example of the type and style of visitor accommodations developed in Carmel-by-the-Sea during the decade of the 1930's, it incorporates the unusual employment of a popular traditional eastern building style for the Carmel lodging industry. The use of stylized door surrounds, cornices, traditional building materials and other colonial detailing is coupled with the employment of Carmel stone, veneers and decorative exterior wood shingling that give the hotel a "Carmel" look.

The 1937 unusually shingled structure housing the current lobby and lounge was built by a German carpenter following Mrs. Theurer's trip to Oberammergau, Germany, where she became entranced with German architecture and woodworking. The hotel continues to operate presently with little change to its original appearance.