— Region —
Cape Ann.
Cape Ann is Massachusetts's other peninsula — Gloucester's working harbor, Rockport's clapboard shops, Manchester-by-the-Sea's mansion district. The independent inn scene is small but real: Beauport Hotel, Emerson Inn by the Sea (1846), Bass Rocks Ocean Inn, the Cape Ann Marina Resort. The chain hotels are inland on Route 128 — irrelevant to the Cape Ann visit.
4 hotels on the list
Gloucester, MA
Beauport Hotel Gloucester
A 2016 oceanfront boutique on Pavilion Beach — 94 rooms, rooftop pool, 1606 restaurant.
Photography coming
Gloucester, MA
Bass Rocks Ocean Inn
An 1899 oceanfront estate on Atlantic Road — 51 rooms, the Gloucester family-pick for 70 years.
Rockport, MA
Emerson Inn by the Sea
Where Ralph Waldo Emerson summered — an 1846 oceanfront inn in Pigeon Cove, 36 rooms.
Photography coming
Rockport, MA
The Tuck Inn
An 1790 sea-captain's home in Rockport's harbor — 11 rooms, walking distance to Bearskin Neck.
Aesthetics present in Cape Ann
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