OUTTAKE-June 2010

Photography Irvin Serrano

This brass box contains bedroom keys, a leftover from when Portlaw, as the Camden home is called, was still an inn. Upstairs, the bedrooms still have their brass knockers. “We wanted,” says homeowner Stephanie Mayer, “to preserve the history of the house in a way that honored its roots.” The crayons are for visitors, who are encouraged to decorate postcards on their visits. The younger set’s efforts are framed in at least one bathroom, serving as a complement to the Mayer children’s art, which adorns a substantial wall in the former inn’s living room.