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Hotel Tivoli And Its Restaurant Bring An Artistic Vision To Town

By Jamie Larson Since its opening a little over a year ago, Hotel Tivoli has been adding a rich vibrancy to the happening, yet slightly hidden, scene growing in its namesake village, Tivoli, New York. The walls lined with art created by the hotel’s notable owners Brice and Helen

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Blantyre Opens The Door To Be Manor-Born For The Moment

By Lisa Green They took the private sign down. “We want the local community to experience Blantyre," says Christopher Brooks, the new general manager, who served as its chef for 12 years. After a hospitality stint in Nantucket, he’s back at the exquisite Scottish-inspired country manor. Owner Ann

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The Milliner Guesthouse And Inn: Hudson In Four Rooms

Photos by Shannon Greer. By Jamie Larson One of the most enjoyable things about the ongoing small business renaissance in Hudson is its vast diversity of style. Each shop, guesthouse, restaurant and cultural center is a reflection of the unique style, and often caprice, of the individuals involved. The Hudson

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A Vintage Modern Bed and Breakfast in Williamstown

By Amy Krzanik When a top-notch innkeeper rhapsodizes about a bed-and-breakfast other than his own, you pay attention. Ira Goldspiel, a design aficionado who runs the Inn at Kent Falls, stayed at The Guest House at Field Farm in Williamstown and he raved about experiencing authentic 1940s modernist architecture and

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The Barlow: A Hotel For Hudson (Finally!)

By Jamie Larson The small city of Hudson leaves visitors wanting for little. Warren Street's center is lined with world-class art and antique galleries, restaurants that rival Manhattan's (or at this point, Brooklyn's) best, bars, spas, niche boutiques, and eclectic theaters a block or

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The Better B&B: Stonover Farm in Lenox

Photographs by Kevin SpragueBy Shawn Hartley Hancock“Our guests, basically, enter through the kitchen," says Tom Werman, owner and proprietor of Stonover Farm, the luxury B&B a mere two miles from Tanglewood that he runs with his wife, Suky. “We like it that way," he says.

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Bascom: A Venerable and Democratic Lodge Celebrates A Diamond Jubilee

By Shawn Hartley Hancock Visiting a stone lodge at the top of a mountain appeals to everyone, even the not-very-outdoorsy. The delicious smoke and crackle of a campfire, the bracing fresh air, or maybe just the absence of a TV and a break from the quotidian all seem to conjure

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The Briarcliff Motel: Not Just Another Roadside Attraction

Londoners Clare Weatherall and Richard Proctor first came to the Berkshires 15 years ago as tourists on a whirlwind tour of New England, staying mostly at bed & breakfast lodgings. Motels were out of the question. Like many Europeans, their impression of the quintessentially American roadside accommodation had been informed

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Counterintuitive Chic: A New Palette at the Red Lion Inn

"I wanted people who are allergic to wallpaper to feel welcome at the Red Lion Inn," owner Nancy Fitzpatrick says with mischievous glee. She is talking about the 17 new rooms that the landmark hotel (circa 1773) has just added, which have been rigorously designed (and painted, not

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At Chesterwood, Meadowlark Gets a Hammertown-Style Makeover

When sculptor Daniel Chester French, he of Lincoln Memorial and Minute Man fame, needed to escape the friends, family members, clients, models, assistants, and assorted others who disrupted the serenity of the home, studio, and gardens of his Stockbridge, Massachusetts estate, Chesterwood, he would steal away to his “Little Studio,

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The Wake Robin Inn: A Celebration Destination

If you're one of those people who've always dreamed of running a country inn, Michael Loftus & Shaffin Shariff  would like to talk to you. Ten years ago, the two men (who were then a couple) moved from Chicago to Lakeville, CT, to overhaul the woebegone

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Whimsical, Winsome Winvian Now Cooks

By Kathryn Matthews “Ninety-five percent of our guests never leave the property—until they head home,” says Maggie Smith (below), owner of Winvian, a private resort tucked amid the rolling Litchfield Hills in northwest Connecticut. Famously discreet, Winvian reflects the spirit of its former owners—Winthrop Smith, a founding partner

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