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Cavernous hearths yawning six feet across were commonplace in New England's earliest homes and inns, and the fireplace in the Tap Room at the Publick House is a spectacular surviving example. The crown jewels of this Back Bay luxury hotel are its Executive Fireplace Rooms, 450-square-foot sanctuaries graced with fully functioning wood-burning hearths. Top-end suites have gas fireplaces, but the lobby features a stone-by-stone reconstruction of the original building's great wood-burning hearth. oceanhouse.com THE WHITE HORSE TAVERN, Newport. If anything tops an inn room with a fireplace, it's a suite with two fireplaces. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers travel tips for Montgomery, Lyndonville and Brandon in Vermont and includes recommendations for accomodation at the hotel Inn in Montgomery, hotel Wildflower Inn in Lyndonville and bridge Sanderson in Brandon.