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Nestled throughout the
10-acre grounds of Carmel River Inn, each of our cottages is unique.
Several feature a white-picket fence, others a wood-burning fireplace,
and some have a kitchenette.
All of our cottages are pet-friendly. Each of these eclectic
cottages is named for a well-known character in California’s colorful
history. Among these famous names, you will find such California
historical icons as conservationist and photographer
Ansel Adams, and
controversial author
Henry Miller.
Most of the cottages at
Carmel River Inn feature:
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Fridge
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Stove
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Freezer
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Coffee / Tea maker
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Toaster
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Microwave
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Eating utensils
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Dishware
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Cooking utensils
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Television and DVD
Player
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Cable TV
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Sitting area
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Dining area
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Multiple rooms
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Fireplace
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Hair dryer
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Telephone
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Voicemail
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Alarm clock
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Separate water heater
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Adjustable showers
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Private Patio
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Outdoor furniture
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Individual gardens
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Covered parking
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Windshield washing
station
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Iron and Ironing board
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Toiletries
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Ice Bucket
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Heater / Air
conditioner
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Access to the Heated
Outdoor Swimming pool
Book a room
Ansel Adams Born in San Francisco on February 20, 1902, Ansel Adams was
the only child of Olive and Charles. In 1916, on a family vacation, he
visited Yosemite for the first time, and was to return there every year
for the rest of his life. Although known and admired as a photographer
and conservationist, Ansel Adams was also an accomplished concert
pianist. His first acknowledged photograph was 1927’s Monolith, The Face
of Half Dome. In 1928, he married Virginia Best in Yosemite. In 1962,
Ansel Adams moved to Carmel, where in 1967 he was instrumental in the
foundation of the Friends of Photography. Ansel Adams died of heart
failure aggravated by cancer on April 22, 1984.
Henry Miller Born in New York in 1891 of German-American parentage,
Henry Miller spoke only German until he began school. His first marriage
in 1917, to Beatrice Sylvas Wickens, ended in divorce in 1924, five
years after the birth of his daughter, Barbara. In 1922, he began to
write his first book, which was later to be called Clipped Wings. In
1924 he married June Mansfield, a dancer, who was to be Miller’s
inspiration and frustration. His marriage to June ended in 1932. In
April 1928, Henry Miller traveled to Europe, where he roamed the streets
of Paris searching for inspiration and financial support. Here he began
work on the novel Tropic of Cancer, which, with the help of friend,
colleague, and eventual lover, Anais Nin, was published in 1934. This
work was heavily autobiographical and so sexually explicit that it was
banned in English-speaking countries. (The first American edition did
not come out until 1961.) Subsequent books such as Black Spring (1936)
and Tropic of Capricorn (1939) were also banned. In 1942, Henry Miller
relocated to California and finally settled in Big Sur in 1944, where he
would spend much of the rest of his life. He resumed his interest in
painting, producing hundreds of paintings in a few months, in addition
to his writing. Miller had been lonely since his divorce from his second
wife, and in 1944 he married a Polish immigrant, Janina Martha Lepska.
The couple had a daughter, Valentine, in 1945, and a son, Henry Tony, in
1948. Miller's third marriage collapsed in 1951. Within a year, he had
met Eve McClure, and they were married. During this time, he wrote Big
Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch, a book about his life in Big
Sur. His fourth marriage dissolved in 1960. His Sexus (1949) was the
first part of a promised trilogy on his life, called The Rosy
Crucifixion, but only Nexus (1960) appeared thereafter. By the late
1950s, he found himself increasingly honored by the literary
establishment, and with the legal decision that Tropic of Cancer was not
obscene, his works began to be republished. He also began to receive
some recognition as a watercolorist. Henry Miller was married for a
fifth time, in September 1970, to Hiroko Tokuda, a Japanese jazz singer
who was more than forty years his junior. This marriage ended after only
two years. Henry Miller, now in his eighties, was alone again. He died
in 1980, but his literary legacy continues in the body of literature he
published throughout his long life.
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