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Ocean House in Watch Hill now offers a Sipping Terrace
Jake and Lovely Laban, of Portland, Oregon, with their daughter Ondine, 8, and JakeþÄôs Mother Carolyn Laban, of Niantic, toast their vacation stop at the Sipping Terrace at the Ocean House in Watch Hill Friday, June 25, 2021. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)
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One of the most fulfilling journeys that we as a family have undertaken thus far has been the restoration of my ancestral home The Sirmur Palace witness to over 400 years of history and intrigue. In 1621, Raja Karam Prakash was looking for a new capital for his kingdom of Sirmur when he came across Baba Banwari Das (who is now revered as the town’s presiding deity), deep in meditation under a peepul tree. He advised the ruler to build the palace at that very spot, saying that the town of Nahan would come up around it.
Which it certainly did, and with layers of history wafting around it, the quaint town is home to as many as 14 heritage buildings. As for the peepul tree, it still stands in our courtyard, remaining untouched by all the subsequent rulers who added to the palace complex, the last addition being my father in the year 2017.