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Jackson The plaque out front understates: "A new romance, Nov. 1, 1989, Robert and Nancy Cyr." Local condominium developer Robert Cyr invested big bucks and grand ideas into the transformation of a rustic B&B specializing in horseback riding into a deluxe fantasyland built around the oldest house in Jackson. The Cyrs sought romance and a gingerbread look and ended up with an abundance of both. Such is their appeal to passersby along Route 16 that tours of the property are given daily at 2 p.m. Behind the locked front doors of beveled glass lie a lovely living room with beamed ceiling and fireplace, a tin-ceilinged breakfast room, an intimate tap room and a bird cage full of finches in the lobby. Upstairs are five bedrooms and two suites, each named for the Jackson artist whose paintings hang in the room. All have two-person therapy spa tubs and 19th-century parlor stoves or fireplaces and are decorated to the hilt. Everything is pink and mint green and ever-so-coordinated in the prized William Paskell Room, which has a hand-carved four-poster kingsize bed with a crocheted canopy, cherry and mahogany furnishings, fireplace and french doors opening onto a small balcony. The Horace Burdick Suite includes a queensize bed and a small sitting room with a ruffly day bed for a third guest. The penthouse master suite takes up the entire third floor and accommodates four guests in three rooms, including a separate jacuzzi room with wet bar. A low-fat country breakfast is served in the dining room at seven tables set with high-back chairs and fine English china. It includes fresh oranges and grapefruit, cereals, homemade muffins and perhaps the house specialty, an omelet stuffed with fresh vegetables. Gingerbread and romance continue outside onto landscaped grounds outfitted with statuary, gardens and even a big pond into which a waterfall trickles beneath a curving bridge. Music is piped into a huge gazebo, complete with a fireplace, park benches, a ceiling fan and a red sleigh in the middle. Horses, deer, sheep, llamas and donkeys from Nestlenook's petting farm graze in a nearby pasture. A riverside chapel (for making or renewing marriage vows), a heated pool, sleigh or horse-drawn trolley rides and daily massages also help the resort live up to its billing as "fantasyland." The expanding 65-acre Victorian Village now includes twelve villas containing deluxe rooms and suites plus more suites in hilltop chateaus. Five rooms and two suites with private baths. Memorial Day to mid-September and mid-October to mid-December: doubles $140 to $250, suites $190 to $340. Foliage and mid-December through March: doubles, $185 to $330, suites $250 to $360. Two-night minimum stay. Children over 12. Closed April to Memorial Day. For more information: www.luxurymountaingetaways.com
Material excerpted from Inn Spots & Special Places in New England, by Nancy and Richard Woodworth. Copyright 2004. Wood Pond Press E-mail feedback to: Home
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