Stay where history was made at a Vermont historic inn or hotel

History comes in a variety of forms when you stay at one of the lovingly restored properties of The Landmark Trust USA. Couples love the rustic, intimate Sugarhouse, once part of a maple-sugaring operation. Families love the 1837 Dutton Farmhouse with its orchard views and game room. The barn-red Amos Brown House, built in 1802, boasts period furniture and front-door access to hiking, biking and cross-country skiing. Rudyard Kipling’s three-story Naulakha, built for the author in 1892 (along with its Carriage House, which sleeps four), features much of the original furniture (you can sit at the desk where “The Jungle Book” was written) as well as a mini-museum with Kipling artifacts. Outside, play tennis on the original clay tennis court.

Hospitality is an age-old tradition at the Rabbit Hill Inn, which began in the late 1700s as a place where traders traveling from Montreal to Boston or Portland could hoist a tankard of ale and lodge overnight. Save one period in the 1900s when it was a private home, Rabbit Hill has been an inn ever since. Today’s guests in the 19-room bed and breakfast will discover not only modern comforts (some rooms have double hydromassage tubs) but those that harken back to a relaxed age: a candlelit dining room serving exquisitely crafted American fare, crackling fireplaces, puzzles in cozy sitting rooms, lemonade in the afternoon on the porch and gazebos where you can listen to the waterfall. Rated #39 of the Top 100 Hotels Worldwide, #3 in the USA, and #1 in the Northeast by Travel & Leisure, July 2020.