The Charles Newhall House

We had about 20 people at the manor for an event. We had about 14 people-ish stay overnight. I was a guest of the event and was one of the people who stayed overnight in the Charles Newhall House. The good: The owner seemed nice. I had to ask him for a few things and he was pleasant about it. The fireplaces were beautiful. They for sure warmed the whole house. The manor has a lot of older details that are just stunning. The floors in the dining room are super cool. Also, don't forget to look up at the ceilings, they are also detailed. The experience: I would not hold an event here. The owner was the chef, housekeeper, and server. When we got there he did have an assistant with him and a woman helping him with the rooms...she disappeared about 45 minutes later. The rooms were cold and damp. The thermostats were set to below 50. I changed that pretty quickly to 70. I did check my room for bugs/damage due to past problems in some air bnbs. I found blood in one of the beds. The response was to remove the item and "Weird I haven't booked this room in a while". The drinks for the "bar" were outside. The drinks were left in their original packages and the alcohol was being served by the owner. He would not let us get drinks on our own, I found that odd. We didn't get our dinner until 9 ish and a few guests did not get their food until 10 ish. Most likely because people were getting drinks. At 11 before the dessert could be brought out he disappeared? Nothing was cleaned up either after the event. We came down in the moring to the fruit board from the night before still out. This also seemed odd. The more we looked at our rooms the more we noticed details that were ignored, cobwebs, cracked paint, dust, and dirt. If someone wanted to stay here I would recommend staying in the manor itself and not the house but ideally staying somewhere else altogether, as those rooms had their own issues. I also would not recommend doing an event here. Having the owner as the chef and server was too much, there should have been more staff for this. I will end my review here but there is so much more I could say. I would upload photos but I cannot seem to get it to work.