A ten-bedroom heritage inn occupying a Mediterranean-style villa originally commissioned by the Canadian whisky magnate Hiram Walker, set on a wooded hill above Reed Avenue, with eleven working fireplaces and views back across the Passamaquoddy to the harbour.
"A Mediterranean villa built for a Canadian whisky baron, dropped onto a New Brunswick hill above Reed Avenue, and run today as a ten-bedroom heritage bed and breakfast. The Hiram Walker is the booking for a guest who wants the architecture to do the talking."
The Hiram Walker Estate stands on a low wooded hill above Reed Avenue, ten minutes on foot from the Water Street wharves and three minutes from the Algonquin Resort. The villa itself was built for Hiram Walker (the Detroit-based Canadian distiller behind Canadian Club whisky) as a Maritime summer house, with a Mediterranean-revival vocabulary that reads as a deliberate counter-statement to the Tudor and Shingle architecture dominating the rest of the village: stucco walls, terracotta roof tiles, deep loggias, a central courtyard with a fountain. The current operation took the property through a full restoration in the early 2010s, retaining the eleven original fireplaces, the carved stairhall, and the leaded-glass windows in the public rooms.
The ten bedrooms are arranged across two floors of the main villa and a small two-room loggia annex. Categories run from compact Garden Rooms with single windows onto the courtyard, through Estate Rooms with bay-view balconies, to the top-floor Walker Suite, which holds a king bed, a separate sitting room, a wood-burning fireplace, and a freestanding tub positioned for the southwest light. Each room is en-suite (eleven baths and three half-baths across the house), air-conditioned, and decorated in restrained period style: oak floors, Persian rugs, framed historical photographs of the Walker family in Saint Andrews. Most rooms hold one of the eleven working fireplaces.
The Hiram Walker is a true bed and breakfast in operation: there is no on-site restaurant for dinner, but breakfast is a full plated service in the dining room from 8:00 to 10:00 daily, weighted toward Charlotte County produce and the house's own preserves. The bar program is small (a short list of Canadian whiskies, a Niagara wine flight, and a single rotating local beer), served in the library off the front hall. For dinner, the Rossmount is six minutes by car and the Chandler Room at the Treadwell Inn is ten minutes on foot.
Service is owner-operated and consistent week to week. The garden runs across roughly two acres and includes a heated outdoor pool that operates June through September, a small kitchen-garden terrace, and a south-facing reading lawn under two old elms. The new eight-car heated garage (unusual in a Saint Andrews property of this scale) sits behind the carriage drive. The Estate operates year-round but books out cleanly between mid-June and late September; the autumn shoulder weeks of late September and October are the local secret for a Hiram Walker stay.
The Hiram Walker reads anniversary because the building is unusually serious for the price band, and because the Walker Suite delivers a fireplace, a separate sitting room, and a south-west tub-view that no other room in town will match at this rate. Book a Friday-to-Monday in late September, reserve the Rossmount for dinner on night two, and use the heated pool in the late afternoon if the weather cooperates.
For a solo stay, the Hiram Walker offers the quietest physical setting of any small inn in Saint Andrews: the property sits well above Reed Avenue on its own hill, the loggia annex is genuinely private, and the south-facing reading lawn under the elms is a single-traveller landscape. Ask for one of the two loggia annex rooms for the maximum quiet.
109 Reed Avenue
E5B 1A1 Saint Andrews, New Brunswick
Canada
Ten minutes on foot to the Water Street wharves; three minutes by foot to the Algonquin Resort
Ten rooms and suites
Garden Rooms from CAD 195/night
Estate Rooms from CAD 285
Walker Suite to CAD 425
Loggia annex rooms available May to October
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 11:00 AM
Originally built for Hiram Walker (Canadian Club whisky); restored early 2010s
Mediterranean Revival villa, eleven original fireplaces
Eleven baths, three half-baths, eight-car heated garage
Heated outdoor pool (June to September)
Plated morning-room breakfast; no on-site dinner
Small Canadian-whisky bar in the library
Year-round operation, two-acre garden
From CAD 195 / night. Saint Andrews books out cleanly between mid-June and Labour Day weekend; reserve three months ahead for summer weekends and six months ahead for the New Year's holiday week.
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