There are four suites and seven stan-
dard guest rooms on the third and
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of spaces that opens to the piazza
and could be another suite is a not-
so-common room called the Library.
"It's an open parlor designed very
much like the Drawing Room," Ducamp
said. "Huge mahogany sliding doors.
Large settees. Couches, potted palm
trees. You feel like you are in a Victo-
rian, private little boudoir. That's for
the guests only, though. In the after-
noon we'll have a little bar where you
can have a cocktail and a snack. Or you
can just sit down and read a magazine.
That room, as well as the two suites
next to it, overlook Broadway and
have that beautiful veranda and out-
door piazza. All guests have access to
the piazza through the Library. Then
the two corner suites, if you rent the
suite you have private access to the
piazza through the suite. There will
be walls to keep public from private."
In the rebuild to a luxury hotel,
the suites and guest rooms shrank in
number but grew in size.
"Virtually every other room has be-
come a bathroom," Ducamp said. "Not
only are the guest rooms very gener-
ously sized, but the bathrooms are
enormous. You spend so much time in
a guest room in two places; in the bed
and in the bathroom. So we have in-
vested a tremendous amount of time
and research on the best bedding."
"Then the bathrooms. It's a beau-
