Castle Hill Inn & Resort
The marvelous
Victorian summer mansion built (1874) for Alexander
Agassiz is perched on a hill at the southwestern
tip of
Rhode
Island
overlooking
Narragansett Bay: dark wood, ornate fireplaces,
large-flower-pattern wallpaper (different in each
room, of course), Oriental carpets, a sunny
solarium, a fine dining room—it's
all here.
Black Duck Inn
Only a half-block east of America's
Cup Avenue at 29 Pelham Street, the 11-room,
gambrel-roofed Black Duck Inn (tel
401-841-5548 or 800-206-5212) is
neat as a pin, with antique furnishings, but modern
conveniences such as central air-conditioning,
phones and TVs in the guest rooms, and off-street
parking.
Wayside Guest House Bed and Breakfast
With an address such as 406
Bellevue
Avenue, you'd expect a grand mansion—which
is what you find at the Wayside (tel
401-847-0302 or 800-653-7678), a fine 1890s
house of tawny brick set back from the avenue
with its own little driveway and porte-cochère.
Your neighbor here is "The
Elms"—can't get much fancier.
Cliffside Inn
If you want to be near Easton's
(First) Beach and the start of Cliff
Walk,
and you like Victorian charm, the 11-room
Cliffside Inn (tel 401-847-1811 or 800-845-1811),
2
Seaview
Avenue, is for you. Owned at one time by
a painter named Beatrice
Pasatorius Turner, it has antique furnishings
dating from 1880, when the house was built as a
summer cottage for Governor Swann of Maryland.
Melville House
"The past is present" on
a quiet street only a few blocks up Historic
Hill from
America's Cup Avenue and the Brick
Market.
The 7-room Melville House (tel
401-847-0640 or 800-711-7184) at 39 Clarke
Street is a beautiful old colonial house
dating from
about 1750.
The
mood here is one of antiques, good taste,
quiet, and friendliness.
