Not sure whether to pull on your thickest parka or your breeziest outfit – there’s a daily updated blackboard with the current weather situation propped up on the fireplace, alongside the day’s newspaper. You don’t have to go outside to wildlife spot: your new digs have a resident buffalo (head) and pheasant, both stuffed, but house-trained. There’s a little history here too – the house was built in 1882; in the 1920s it was turned into a saloon by the fittingly named Martin Spritzer. The past is in-built, with floors sourced from an old sugar factory and roof beams from a midwestern barn. The Rainbow Room is wheelchair-accessible, though not specially adapted.