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20% off your final bill! For stays of 4 nights & more
10% off your final Bill! For Stays of 2 or 3 nights
Valid for all Reservations as of July 01, through October 20, 2009
This includes all your Dinner Food & Drinks, all your Breakfast and Room charges.
Just book by July 31and smile when you pay your bill!
We hope you will take advantage of our discount offering above. For 30 years we have enjoyed welcoming guests from all over the world. Our family is profoundly grateful for your past and future patronage. Please accept our gesture as a sign of appreciation and an attempt to reach out when times are more difficult.
Applies only for stays of 2 nights or longer.
Applicable to all room and food & beverage charges occurred at the "Queen Anne" during your stay.
10% will be deducted immediately upon departure from your final invoice.
Does not apply for abbreviated stays or no show fees. Not valid on any other charges such as gratuities, telephone, massage treatments , room taxes etc. Does not apply to any type of private functions. Not valid with other promotional or contracted offerings by third parties. Effective as of May 27, 2009
Welcome to the "Queen Anne Inn" one of Cape Cod's most beautiful and original full service inns; owned and operated by the Weinkopf family since 1979.
Arrive and relax! We have everything you'll need under one roof and village and beach right at your finger tips. The "Queen Anne" offers it's guests from around the world a most comfortable and memorable stay in one of the Cape's most sought after vacation spots.
The "Queen Anne" is a place of timeless tranquility & complete relaxation, offering you an exciting get-away all year round!
History
Named after Queen Anne of England, the Pilgrim's major benefactor and financial supporter, the "Queen Anne" is located on Queen Anne Road in Chatham, a fishing village on the outer Cape Cod.
Built in 1840 as a wedding present to the daughter of clipper ship Captain Norman Howes, it became the first parish house of the "First Congregational Church", when Captain Howes' daughter married a minister.
In 1874, the Taylor family from Maine bought the property and started to operate the "Queen Anne Inn", adding the original, then smaller north wing to the building. The Taylors were the first who actively promoted Chatham and the Cape as a vacation destination.They organized large hunting parties and fishing trips, luring many mainlanders to the outer Cape.
Right after World War I, the Taylors, having no children, sold the place to the Swan family, who then operated the Inn until 1972. The Swans enlarged the north and added the south wing. They gained an excellent reputation and made the "Queen Anne" one of the Cape's landmarks. The Swan family preserved the original Victorian character of the Inn and did not give in to the styles of the 50's and 60's. Unfortunately for them, those decades created the "motel culture" where, unless you could "drive right into your bedroom" and lounge on a Naugahyde couch, the place was not much in demand.
Sold under duress in 1972, the Inn, within a summer season, lost all its remaining clientele and became a "central dormertory" for seasonal workers. Very soon the old rambling inn was in a desolate situation.
. In 1979, it was saved just in the nick of time when it was bought by Austrian born hotelier Guenther Weinkopf. Over the years, the original Victorian style and ambience was recreated, reflecting the elegant simplicity so much desired by the puritan-oriented lifestyle of the New England Yankees. Much of the antique furniture to be found in the rooms has never left the place in more than 130 years. Some of the old braided rugs were actually made by the Inn's guests in 1918 and 1919.
Today, murals painted byJames Parker, a local artist, in the inn's lounge depict the arrival of Samuel Champlain on Chatham's shores in 1606. A large etched glass window on the northeastern corner of the inn shows an illustrated map of New England done by a Dutch surveyor in 1680. Many paintings and works of fine art illustrate early life on Cape Cod and its seafaring history. Working fireplaces and large private balconies and patios add to the historic ambience of the individually appointed guests rooms. Modern amenities like Jacuzzis, hot tubs and TVs are tastefully integrated, creating the feeling of entering a time capsule from a century ago.
"Discovered" in the 1980's by the widow of an American president who used the "Queen Anne" for her private parties at the beginning and end of her summer vacations on Cape Cod, the Inn became very popular and well known without ever losing its understated and simple elegance, which gives the thoughtful and sophisticated traveler a true sense of place.