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home to a popular weekly farmers' market
that has been held there for years and provides
countless hours of enjoyment to the community. The pleasing pathway from the park up
to Alumnae House will be further beautified
by new landscaping and lighting design.
The new 48,000-square-foot facility will
consist of a three-story inn with 50 guest
rooms; a two-story institute with a restaurant on the first floor; and a glass lobby
connecting those two parts. The second floor
of the institute will have two large flexible
public spaces that can be configured for
events and smaller spaces for more intimate
gatherings.
The restaurant will be an inviting new
addition to the flourishing Hudson Valley
restaurant scene and is expected to become
a destination even for those who are not
visiting campus. The main dining room
will have around 50 seats. There also will
be outdoor seating looking onto the park,
a 14-seat bar, and a 14-to-16-seat private
dining room. Though the restaurant will
serve three meals per day, visitors can also
stop by for coffee.
The architects say the idea is to have an
inn where people can "rest, recharge, and
rethink," an institute where they can "collaborate, communicate, and convene," and a comfortable living-room-like lobby in between.
The Olympia Companies, which
specialize in hotel management and campus
hospitality, will operate the hotel and

Above: Much of the lawn below Alumnae House
will be preserved for the enjoyment of Vassar
constituents and the surrounding community.
Below: Architects situated the institute and inn
so it would "frame" Alumnae House.

restaurant. Commune, a studio that has
designed for the contemporary Ace hotels
and others, will plan the interiors.
Swarthout says the new operation is sure
to keep visitors at Vassar and in the community longer. "There are a number of
admissions guests who come here now, do
the tour, and then leave. They travel on to
wherever their next destination is," he says.
"Now they might stay. And if they're staying,
they might go into the community and some
of the shops nearby, or go to the restaurants.
They'll spend more time here at Vassar or
more time in the county and hopefully fall
in love with it."
Indeed, he says, the inn and restaurant
are expected to draw people to the area-
think bike tours though the Hudson Valley or
family leaf-peeping excursions. The institute
and inn promises to be an enormous boost to
the region Vassar calls home.
Max Kutner '11 is a journalist in New York City. He
has written for Newsweek, where he was a senior
writer, The Boston Globe, and Smithsonian magazine.

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