Inns of Aurora
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Inns of Aurora is not one building trying to do everything. It is a small village resort on Cayuga Lake, spread through resto...
Aurora brings a Cayuga Lake village setting to a New York Finger Lakes stay. Its civic architecture adds another local subject: the library and Morgan Opera House share a building created as a community meeting place.
Prices From 528 USD
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Inns of Aurora is not one building trying to do everything. It is a small village resort on Cayuga Lake, spread through resto...
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The building housing Aurora Free Library was designed as a community meeting place in 1899 and given to the village by Louise Morgan Zabriskie. The Tudor Revival project brought civic and cultural functions together, including a library and an upstairs Victorian theater, the Morgan Opera House.
Carved woodwork and leaded glass are among the building’s interior features. In the theater, the stage rises toward the back and a pressed-tin proscenium frames it. Those details give an interest in architecture a particular performance-space subject, distinct from the houses that shape the village.
The Inns of Aurora includes several accommodation houses, with the Aurora Inn beside Cayuga Lake in the village center. Ithaca’s town atmosphere and gorge landscape offer a regional contrast. Our New York State destination guide provides the wider context.
No. This guide concerns the village on Cayuga Lake in New York’s Finger Lakes. Keep the state and lake clear when comparing accommodation, since the name Aurora is used by other destinations.
It occupies a separate hilltop setting above Aurora, with views towards Cayuga Lake. Consider that relationship when choosing how to divide time between the village, accommodation and restorative experiences; the resort is not one single building.
MacKenzie-Childs is known for decorative ceramics and home furnishings in a farm setting near the village. It adds a design and making subject to a lakeside stay, distinct from a winery visit or a day spent on the water.
The Inns’ nature trail explores the landscape around the village, with woodland, fields and elevated views. Choose it for that change of perspective rather than expecting every outdoor outing to stay immediately beside the water.
The Aurora Inn dates from the nineteenth century, when Cayuga Lake was part of a wider pattern of travel and commerce. That background gives the village’s hospitality an historical context beyond its present role as a place for relaxation.