The Shiverick Inn, Edgartown

Standing guard at the entrance to historic Edgartown, The Shiverick Inn welcomes you to this seaside village of 19th century mansions, built during the town's heyday as a whaling port. White picket fences, daintily manicured gardens and ancient, spreading linden trees are the hallmarks of this peaceful town.

Built in 1840 for Dr. Clement Francis Shiverick, the town physician, and situated at the prominent corner of Pease's Point Way and Pent Lane, The Shiverick Inn today offers a delightful blend of past and present. Great care was taken in its recent restoration to preserve the architectural details of this gracious mansion, revive its romantic ambiance and exquisitely recreate its elegant grandeur.

As soon as you enter the immaculate grounds, you become part of a different world, a simple, but grandly romantic sequence of visual pleasures and physical comforts purposely designed to enchant the senses and enrich the spirit. Each of the one-of-a-kind guest rooms, suites and common rooms recalls a by-gone era, transporting the Inn visitors to a time when dedication to tradition, elegance and comfort were imperative.

Through painstaking attention to detail, the Inn has meticulously preserved the graceful formalities of this distinctive period, blending American, English and French 18th and 19th century antiques with rich fabrics, fine wallpapers, oriental rugs and vivid colors borrowed from the New England landscape. Even the random width floor boards throughout the Inn are warn to a glowing patina only one and a half centuries of perpetual footsteps could achieve.