Butternut Farm Accommodations








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Butternut Farm
1654 Main Street
Glastonbury, CT 06033

Innkeeper
Don Reid

Information and
Reservations

(860) 633-7197
(860) 659-1758 fax





The keeping room at Butternut Farm -- click here to see the big picture





Overnight accommodations are in rooms furnished in keeping with the colonial period. The only modern touchs are the 20th-century bathrooms, decorated in colonial style. Each room includes a private bath, telephone, alarm clock radio, and complimentary sherry and chocolates. Two parlors, a “keeping room,” and a sitting room with a video cassette library and fax machine are available for guests. A full breakfast with fresh eggs, milk, cheese, and home-made jams is served in the original dining room or in the intimate breakfast room.

“Wine, dine, or slumber, Butternut Farm is a place out of time.”

—Lani Jurev, The Glastonbury Citizen

Sorry, no pets nor smoking. A deposit is requested, refundable (less a small charge) with ten day's notice. Check-in is 3 PM; check-out at 11 AM or by arrangement. Cash, checks, Amex accepted.









The Barn Apartment

  • Private entrance
  • Foot thick walls (animal sound-proof)
  • Bedroom/Living room with TV and VCR
  • Sliding door to secluded patio
  • Full kitchen
  • Double bed in bedroom/living room
  • Bath with tub/shower
  • $120 plus tax

“Beyond the secret garden is the entrance to the suite in the barn. These rooms are reserved for Reid's very special guests. A canopy bed commands a view of the secret garden and there is a private kitchen and bath. It's hard to imagine there is a working barn on the other side of the wall. When we leave the hidden bedroom and make our way back through the secret garden, we come upon the entrance to the barn. Cobwebs shroud the rafters, and the ground is covered with woodchips, sawdust and mud. Yet it is all strangely beautiful.”

— William John Mann, The Hartford Monthly









The Tap Room Suite

  • Private stairway
  • Sitting room with TV, VCR, twin sofa-bed
  • Bedroom with double bed
  • Bath with tub/shower
  • $105 plus tax

“Above the tap room is a guest bedroom that beautifully illustrates Reid's sense of space and style. The room has a pitched ceiling that joins the walls barely five feet from the floor. Where conventional wisdom might dictate the use of small scale furniture so as not to overpower the room, Reid installed a large bed with a canopy that precisely mimics the curve of the ceiling. With an open, fishnet-weave tester, or canopy cover, the effect is almost airy.”

— William John Mann, The Hartford Monthly









The Parlor Chamber

  • A big room with many windows
  • Beautiful large fireplace
  • Double bed
  • Bath with tub/shower
  • $95 plus tax

“The parlor chamber, with a view of Main Street—laid out along the 17th century Indian path that once led to New London—is furnished with a high pencil post cherry-wood Connecticut bedstead complete with canopy. At the foot of the bed is a cherry six board storage chest with a neatly scalloped skirt. A small Queen Anne period looking glass graces one wall, a sampler worked by Sally Talcott in 1787 another...

“Small oriental runners cover the wide board floor. A tall mid-18th-century Connecticut cherry chest of drawers, a small wine table, brass candlesticks and bed warmer complete the setting, much as they might have in the days when the Hale family lived there.”

— Frances Phipps, New York Times









The Kitchen Loft

  • Two twin beds
  • Bath with shower stall
  • $95 plus tax

"The kitchen loom loft offers a view of the two acres of lawn and gardens at the rear of the house. It is furnished with two beds of the sort that would have been used in the loft in the 18th century. They are single, low-post beds of the type collectors call hired-men's beds. In keeping with the style of beds, the room also has a three drawer blanket chest with ball feet, a simple six board chest in blue paint and ladder-back chairs that retain their original blue color.”

— Frances Phipps, New York Times