Rye porridge
Brown butter, roasted pear, toasted hazelnut.
Cape Rosalie, Maine · Est. 1924
The coast, at a human pace.
Halden is a six-room house hotel on a granite headland. Breakfast runs long, dinner is one table, and the Atlantic does most of the talking.
6 rooms
In the house and the boathouse
One table
Dinner for thirty, by reservation
Year round
Best, honestly, in bad weather
Dogs
Welcome in three of the rooms
01 — The house
Built in 1924. Kept quiet on purpose.
A captain’s house, a dining room added in the thirties, and a cedar loft in the old boathouse. We restored the plaster and the windows in 2019 and left the creak in the stairs.
There is no spa menu and no conference wing. The work of staying here is simple: sleep, eat, walk the headland, and come back before the light goes. If you need a television, the Library has a record player instead, which is the polite version of no.
The front room, which we still call the parlor. Coffee is set out here from half past six.
02 — Rooms
Sleep above the garden, or above the tide.
03 — The Table
Dinner is the reason a lot of people drive up.
One sitting, thirty seats, a menu that follows the boats and the orchard. You do not have to be staying with us, but you do have to book.
04 — A day
Nothing on the schedule is mandatory.
- Coffee in the parlor. The serious pot, not an urn.
- Breakfast until ten. Porridge, eggs, and whatever the bakery sent.
- Walk the headland. Forty minutes if you don’t stop, which you will.
- A long empty stretch. Read, nap, or drive into town for nothing in particular.
- Dinner at The Table. One sitting. Jackets are unnecessary; hunger is not.
“We came for two nights and stayed through a rainstorm. I have not thought about my phone since Tuesday.”
05 — Journal
Notes from the house.
Stay
Come while the pears are still on the tree.
We answer inquiries within a day. A room is held only after we write back.