The Rockcliffe

The connection to Minden, Ontario runs deep at Millerville — and nowhere is that more evident than in the Rockcliffe.

Built in 2013, the structure was designed with dual purpose in mind: a garage addition at ground level, and above it, a spacious 16′ x 30′ room built to welcome overnight guests in comfort. But the building’s most meaningful feature may be its name. The Rockcliffe takes its inspiration from the world-famous Rockcliffe Tavern and Hotel in Minden, Ontario — a storied establishment that has long been a landmark in the town where the Miller family spent their summers with their grandparents on Mountain Lake.

The name wasn’t chosen lightly. Sandy Neal Eppinger, who has walked through the doors of the original Rockcliffe herself, can vouch for its ambience — the kind of place that earns its reputation not through grandeur but through character. Warm, welcoming, and woven into the fabric of a community. Exactly the feeling worth borrowing.

Today, the Rockcliffe lives up to its namesake in every way. It has become Millerville’s premier gathering space — the natural home for potluck dinners where everyone shows up with their best dish and nobody leaves hungry, and the undisputed headquarters for Ohio State game day celebrations. On those Saturdays, the energy in that room is everything Millerville was built for: family packed in together, the game on, the food spread out, and nobody thinking about anywhere else they’d rather be.

By naming this space after that beloved Minden institution, Millerville keeps another thread of that Canadian chapter alive — a quiet nod to the summers, the lake, the cabin, and the town that shaped so much of what the Miller family holds dear. Guests who walk through the door may not know the full story when they arrive. But they’re gathering under a name that carries a great deal of it.

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