About a month ago my husband and I ditched the kid and took a birthday trip (his) to Galena, Ill. We stayed at a B & B;
Abe’s Spring Street Guest House, a beautifully renovated icehouse, built in 1876, for a predominent Galena brewery, located adjacently, which now is home to Stone House Pottery & Gallery. The icehouse once stored up to 800 tons of ice harvested from the Galena River for the brewery industry. The building has 27-inch thick walls, which in its time was a great insulator and added lots of charm to this building.
Charles Fach is a potter and sculptor and much of his sculpture was evident in our room. Each post of the bed had a different bronze figure and just as we were leaving I noticed a bench that had little sumo wrestlers holding up each leg. The breakfast made by Sandy Fach was incredible and it turned out she once was a weaver so we had lots to talk about. All in all a sweet little get away location, that made me want to run away more often.
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vultures atop the clock tower…I pretended they were ravens |
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lots of up in this town |
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we did not go away hungry |
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the owners lived above the gallery and we had breakfast there |
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one of the sculptures adorning our 4 poster bed |
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local yarn shop |
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