The Tolland Inn, in the town of Tolland midway between
Hartford and Sturbridge, is immersed in history and rich in
ambience. It is rated Three Diamonds by AAA and Three Stars by
Mobil. The Tolland Inn also received the 2007 Yankee Magazine
Editor's Choice award.
Travelers have found shelter in Tolland for most of its 285
years. Public houses, taverns, inns, and hotels, as many as
three at one time, have stood on the Green, offering
accommodations from the pure and simple to country New
England's own version of "high class." This
tradition lapsed in 1959 with the sale of the only remaining
Inn, the Steele House. The new owners made their home in the
huge white house and lived in grand style into the 1980's.
In 1985, the Beechings purchased the Steele House, restored
it as a Bed and Breakfast Inn and renamed it the Tolland Inn.
They are pleased to resume a tradition of the past, and once
more welcome travelers through and to the town of Tolland.
Innkeeper Stephen Beeching is a designer and builder of custom
fine furniture. His workshop is at the Inn and his pieces are
throughout The Tolland Inn.
The Tolland Inn accommodates seven guest rooms, each with
private bath. There are three suites available. Two suites
offer sitting rooms with fireplace and hot tubs; the other is
equipped with a sitting room and bedroom fireplace. For those
extra-special occasions, you can luxuriate in the room with a
cozy fireplace and a relaxing hot tub. A full breakfast is
served daily.
Tolland is set in the rolling hills of eastern Connecticut,
a rural area where many of the pleasures of the region derive
from picking strawberries in June, to the taste of apple pie
at an autumn town fair. The main campus of the University of
Connecticut (UCONN) is just seven miles away. The area abounds
with antique shops, and every weekend brings it's share of
shows and auctions. |
Three times each summer, in May, July and September, the
town of Brimfield is occupied by thousands of dealers staging
one of the largest flea markets in the nation. Old Sturbridge
Village, where one can relive a day in the early 19th century,
is just 25 minutes away. And Hartford, with some of the best
in 20th-century dining, shopping and culture, is about the
same distance in the opposite direction. There you'll find the
Wadsworth Atheneum, the Mark Twain House.
For a nibble of interesting history, a taste of luxury and a
mouthful of sweet comfort, come to the Tolland Inn -- a place
guaranteed to satisfy. |
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