Past weekend I took a significantly required number of days for a coastal getaway up the Massachusetts/New Hampshire and Maine coast. I was attending the Newburyport Kitchen Tour and made the decision to go up a few times early. I stayed at The Garrison Inn in Newburyport – a stylish boutique lodge I wrote about here. I’d stayed here a number of years ago and it experienced due to the fact been renovated so I was itching to get back again there.
The Garrison Inn, developed in 1809, is named soon after Newburyport’s possess William Lloyd Garrison, properly acknowledged abolitionist, is positioned in Brown Sq. in the vicinity of the center of city. I never know if the brick sidewalks and driveway are initial but they sense it with their undulating placement.
I stayed in one of the scaled-down rooms, The Queen Studio and it was beautiful. I bought the flowers for the room – they include such a homey touch!
A biography of William Lloyd Garrison sits on the nightstand.
The deep shutters on the home windows manufactured for a nice darkish space when required!
I never know what the home over is termed – it’s a really white lounge with hearth. When I stayed right here 8 yrs ago in December, it was a darkish, clubby space in which I sat in a cushy arm chair ingesting tea in entrance of the fire. I will say – I think in the winter season it would be great to have a additional cozy place.
One particular of the highlights of remaining at The Garrison Inn is the Girl Fingers Lounge tea room. A female oasis of pink and marble. Each individual evening resort company can partake in tea and sweets in this stunning place.
Lots of selections of teas.
Even on a sizzling evening in a barely air-conditioned place, this was charming.
Did I point out, it is pretty pink? I have been waiting for 3 decades to sit in this place and it doesn’t disappoint. I’d assumed that the flooring was a faux painted marble, but it is essentially carpet.
I didn’t get a good picture of the breakfast place, but scorching breakfast, designed to buy, is incorporated in the area pricing. It is seriously a charming working experience from early morning till night!
Talking of pink:
This is the famed Pink Household which sits, and deteriorates, on a marsh in Newbury, MA on the Plum Island Turnpike. Developed in 1925, it is considered to be a “spite house” as it was constructed as the final result of a divorce by an angry ex-husband whose spouse demanded he make her a reproduction of their shared household but neglected to condition where by the house must be designed – so he designed in in the center of the saltwater marsh with only saltwater plumbing just to make her miserable. It was sold in 2011 to the Parker River Countrywide Wildlife Rescue on whose land it abuts. Extensively photographed and painted, the property in essence is just decaying away as no just one can figure out how to conserve it or raze it. There are Save the Pink property teams. Inhabited right up until 2001, it’s now not habitable or in all probability salvageable. It is an icon of the place.
On Friday, my coastal getaway took me up the magnificent shoreline of New Hampshire and Maine. There have been fried clams and ice cream and views for times!
I hope you liked my coastal getaway driving tour! I extremely endorse this excursion for locals and out-of-towners alike.
All pictures by Linda Merrill.
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