Turning a historic house — whether designed for laborers or lords — into a hotel is never easy. When Fred Krehbiel, a Chicago industrialist, decided to buy Ballyfin, a Georgian manor on 600 acres in Ireland’s County Laois, the property was being used as a school, he says, “and we had to give them six years to build a new building.” During that time, Krehbiel’s team of more than 100 workers began transforming the 1812 mansion into a hotel with 15 rooms, all… (View original article)
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