Welch House

The idea

Welch House sits at the top of the hill with the harbor laid out below it. It is one big building with a basement, three floors and sixty-foot plates, which makes it the only inn in the collection that can carry a real lobby, a dining room and eighteen to twenty suites without an addition.

The brief to the architect: keep the entrance and the face on McKown Street, modernize the rear to the views, and make Welch House the amenity-heavy flagship of the collection with indoor and outdoor rooms that work year-round. That means a double-height lounge in the public heart of the house, a bar and a coffee café off reception, suites with private decks on the harbor side, and decks extended out over the parking so the cars disappear and the views open up.

The interior mood board explores nature's three realms of refuge as three complete schemes. Soft Dune is pale sand and diffused light. Verdant House is mossy greens, botanical textures and a deck under the trees. Crimson Haven is embered dusk: deep reds, muted terracotta and shadowed texture. Each scheme is worked through living and dining, master bedroom, master bath and deck.

Status

Woodhull's design workshop set was issued on 29 September 2026: a preliminary zoning analysis, a concept sketch, exterior and interior renderings, and proposed first, second and third floor plans, all marked preliminary and not for construction. The next round refines the plans, the massing and the first materials studies. Measured drawings of the existing house and two earlier layout proposals are complete.