The final day of vacation and the start of the ride home. But we also wanted to check out Roycroft on the way. So we packed up our stuff, cleaned up our AirBnB, said thank you and goodbye to our hosts and got on the road.
Maura drove as I was a bit hungover from the night before. It’s an hour and forty minutes to get to Roycroft so we had some time to reflect and dissect the trip a bit. We were also on the lookout for any antique stores along the way.
Once we got there we weren’t quite sure where to go or what to do. We parked in front of the visitor center and the lady inside gave us a quick rundown on what Roycroft actually is. From their website:
“The historic Roycroft Campus will inspire visitors to experience the creativity, ideals and future of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
The Roycroft Campus Corporation (RCC) offers educational programming, artisan classes, lectures, interactive events and social gatherings to further promote and preserve the historic Roycroft Campus and the ideals of the Arts & Crafts movement as if Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters never left.”
It’s a very cool looking campus of buildings set up for arts and crafts from ceramics, copper to furniture making. But we were hungry and they have an awesome inn.
The building itself is magnificent. We were seated right away and opted to sit inside instead of out because it was pretty hot outside.
After our quick lunch Maura snapped a bunch of photos of the inn:
Then we went in search of the Roycroft antique shop that exists on the campus. I didn’t see any signs that pointed out where things were so I checked in ceramic shop to ask for directions and they gave me a kind of odd look. It turns out it was one building over.
The antique shop is 2 floors. The upper floor is full of stuff to look at. There were also some pretty creepy dolls. The downstairs had less stuff but still worth checking out. Neither of us bought anything.
Then it was time to get back on the road and head home to the cats.
*All photos are credited to Maura Mixter