Couple can win 3-night stay at Nantucket inn
By
MARY THURWACHTER
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Palm Beach residents JeanEllen Heron and Gerry Connick are
innkeepers to the Century House on Nantucket. This year, they are
celebrating the inn's 175th anniversary and their 25th anniversary
as innkeepers at Century House.
For Valentine's Day, they are calling lovebirds to celebrate
their love by entering for a chance to win a three-night stay.
Couples who enter must be married for at least 25
years.
For details about entering the lovebirds contest, see
www.centuryhouse.com or call (508) 228-0530 .
Century House dates back to 1833 with the Cliff Road land
purchase. It was built in the 1840s by Capt. Robert Calder and in
the early 1870s became a boarding house for islanders during the
winter months and a guest house during the summer months.
Family-operated guesthouses continued to be the preference when
visiting Nantucket, especially after the Depression, when large
resort hotels were shut down, dismantled and reconstructed into some
of the cliff mansions seen on the island today. Guesthouses
prospered after World War II.
Heron, also a real estate broker at Corcoran Group in Palm Beach,
and Connick came to Century House in 1984 where they integrated the
old historic guesthouse into the B&B era by remodeling it to the
tastes they were brought up with. Both grew up in large old homes.
In 1989, the executive producers of Paramount Pictures hit TV
show Wings used Century House as their Nantucket home when
first visiting the island to scout locations.
Heron and Connick open the Century House for the summer season
and spend their winter in Palm Beach.
The INNside Scoop is a weekly column about bed-and-breakfast
inns.
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