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Hot Springs A
two-story-high, wraparound veranda distinguishes this rambling house
whose original four rooms were an 18th-century tavern. It then was a
girls’ school and an inn, and now is a private home-turned-B&B
with two houses joined together. Jean Randolph Bruns, whose family has
owned it since the 1870s, has been known to open it for tours for
Homestead guests. She
offers a first-floor suite with a queensize bed, well-worn oriental
rugs, a huge fireplaced parlor and the only modern bath in the house.
Upstairs is a second suite with a queen bed, a clawfoot tub, and a
parlor with a twin bed and a wicker sitting area. After staying here,
guests from Chicago told Jean they were through looking for real estate
– “they wanted to buy their room!” A
bedroom with a queensize bed comes with private bath. A large end room
with beamed ceilings, working fireplace and a double and a single bed
has a shared bath. A fifth large bedroom is seldom rented – “it’s
my museum room and pulls everything together on my historical tours,”
says Jean. With exposed chestnut log walls, it contains a little desk
from the time it was a school, old textbooks and a museum-quality quilt
of homespun, hand-stitched French fabric on the double bed. Out
back is an 1820s brick kitchen cottage with two bedrooms and a
fireplaced kitchen-dining room, available for families and long-term
rentals. Guests
pick out a mug from a huge collection and help themselves to coffee in
the country kitchen, the only room in the house without a fireplace
because it started as a porch. Breakfast, taken at a long table in the
dining room, might include sausage, cheese strata and apples baked with
brown sugar. The guest parlor opens onto the veranda, where church pews
and rockers overlook two pleasant acres. The stream in back flows from
the warm springs pools and is so tepid that “my grandchildren think
all mountain streams must be warm,” Jean reports. (540) 839-2975. E-mail: JeanBruns@webtv.net One
room, two suites and two-bedroom cottage with private baths; one room
with shared bath. Doubles, $70 to $80. Suites, $90 and $110. Cottage,
$125 for first night, $100 thereafter. Closed December to early March;
cottage open year-round. No credit cards.
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