Each table, chair and bed was crafted by the hotel's owner from repurposed antique building materials.
One can see the reconstructed Town Hall with its clock tower, a few reconstructed houses nearby, an original, antique building here and there, the towering Roman Catholic cathedral, but little else.
The antique buildings serve modern purposes.
Tentatively named Hamilton Square, after the Garfinkel's building, the restaurant will be the chain's newest since it opened a nearly 800-seat Clyde's in four antique buildings in Ashburn in 2006.
Wander the dusty paths among over 40 antique buildings containing everything necessary to small-town life 200 years ago and watch the costumed employees work at old-time crafts.
In February, most of the roughly 150 dealers renting space in the Chelsea Antiques Building at 110 West 25th Street were told by the landlord to vacate the building by April 29, when the building would close.
And Boe Holder, who is studying fashion history and theory, said that, though she had misgivings about moving out of the antique Charing Cross building, she loved the new campus, especially the accessible and open library: "the best bit".
Peter and Patty Cooke bought the antique 1813 building on a whim and turned it into a luxury inn.
Twenty-five yeago Arifinifin Olii, whose family concrete business has helped construct many five-star tourist destinations in Bali, saw an antique wooden building he loved.
With its winding stone pathways, statuary, fountains and seemingly antique small buildings, the garden could be part of an ancient monastery.
Chiat, the advertising mogul turned Internet entrepreneur, grew to love the feel of an old barn when he rented the photographer and art patron Adelaide de Menil's house in East Hampton, a compound of converted antique farm buildings.
