She looks faintly stagey, a petite woman treated well by her years. She and her late husband have been the only owners since 1948. A certain style has settled in with an appreciative clientele that returns winter after winter. Guests share a long lobby that is more like a living room that bedrooms open onto. Coffee perks all morning.
Guests bring breakfast foods from their refrigerators and chew over plans for the day.
It is a place for bridge or for reading, watching TV, tending the plants. Some evenings the crowd pitches in for a potluck dinner using Faye's kitchen. There is the little feeling of a congregate living facility. That's because familiarity prevails. Rooms that were small and plain have now been reconfigured so that from 27 there are now 16 units, some with two bedrooms and some with one, but all with private baths.