PRICE:
Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

Look for a butterscotch-colored 1853 Queen Anne Victorian all but enshrouded in weeping beech trees. Admirers of late-19th-century decor are in for a treat: The interior remains dark and rich, with a red-velvet parlor and tin ceilings in the dining room where innkeeper Debbie Traugot serves a three-course breakfast featuring home-baked delights such as applesauce pancakes and raspberry bread. Two of the upstairs bedrooms embody distinctive period styles: The Cottage Room contains furniture painted in an 1860s mode, and the Eastlake Room is modeled on the aesthetic precepts of William Morris that flourished in the 1880s. Each affords a distant view of the sparkling bay. All rooms have Sealy Posturepedic Plush mattresses. Rooms range from quite spacious (Lilac) to romantically snug (Garret); some have a fireplace and TV/VCR. The Traugots breed golden retrievers and guests are free to play with puppies, if they so desire.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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