It might also be where you came from, if you arrived via the resort’s “Dock & Dine” arrangement. That view is also a reminder of where your dinner might be from, since fresh seafood dominates the menu.
At Saybrook Point Resort & Marina’s restaurant, diners can be forgiven for not focusing on the big stone fireplace-the views of Long Island Sound just might take precedence. Eighteenth-century travelers along the Connecticut coast warmed themselves at Captain Packer’s firesides, as do today’s diners and pub patrons at the Captain Daniel Packer Inne, a popular venue for live folk music and jazz. Captain Daniel Packer built his imposing gambrel-roofed inn on the Mystic River in 1756, and its great central chimney has been part of the Mystic skyline ever since. Individually prepared breakfasts are a standout-no cereal dispensers here-and in the afternoon, teatime beckons in the fireplaced library. Two inviting upstairs suites have wood-burning fireplaces, as does a one-room cottage on the 27-acre property. “Bed and Breakfast” is almost too pedestrian a category for this southern Berkshires gem built in 1763. CONNECTICUTīlackberry River Inn, Norfolk. All the rooms here are sumptuously decorated, and four feature working, wood-burning fireplaces. The Breakers, Kingscote, Elms, Rosecliff, Belcourt, and so on. Appropriately, guest rooms are named after the palatial “cottages” built by summering magnificoes at the turn of the last century.
Don’t look for hip minimalism at The Wynstone, downtown Newport’s small-hotel tribute to the Gilded Age. Built in 1673, and a purveyor of food and drink for much of its history, the tavern boasts, in its downstairs dining room, a fireplace that once warmed George Washington. There was a Newport long before the Gilded Age, and the White Horse Tavern brings that colonial heyday vividly back to life. Top-end suites have gas fireplaces, but the lobby features a stone-by-stone reconstruction of the original building’s great wood-burning hearth.
The grande dame of the Rhode Island coast is Ocean House, a sprawling yellow structure that’s a near-exact replica of the original Victorian hotel, with splendid additions and amenities that have earned it Relais & Châteaux status. The waterfront hotel’s backyard blazes are the perfect place to sip a cocktail and ward off the evening chill after a day spent exploring the island. Not one but eight firepits enliven the grounds at the National Hotel, a Victorian confection dating to 1888 and rebuilt after burning down in 1902 (a hint, perhaps, as to why today’s fires are kept outdoors).
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