Contact: Dr. Shirley Schaye
Guestrooms: 7 (sleeps 16-20)
Address: Hancock, Jiminy Peak, Berkshires, Massachusetts, USA
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Telephone: (212) 787-7862
Email: shakerealt@gmail.com
Fax: (212) 496 8922
Activities/Attractions: Berkshire County is wondrously rural, yet within a convenient traveling distance from Boston and New York. The Berkshires' appeal to metropolitan residents seeking a restful, idyllic getaway is legendary. Many visitors have purchased second homes here and countless others have relocated here. Cultural and recreational pastimes abound, giving residents and visitors alike a vast choice of activities. Recreational opportunities abound including:
- downhill and cross-country skiing
- hiking, biking
- whitewater rafting
- fishing
- golf
Look for innovative programs and events for families and individuals; historical sites; exhilarating sports and recreation opportunities; and world-class festivals along with:
- music
- theatre
and dance
- award-winning restaurants
- shopping
- antiquing galore every season, year round
Click here for a detailed list of area attractions.
General Information: Welcome to Shaker View Manor ... with vistas of historic Lebanon Shaker Mountain. You enter the front of the house, built in 1860, through a massive Dutch front door into a classic Victorian Center Hall. A magnificent curved staircase greets you; right and left are sunny parlors with fireplaces and a spacious library/music room, as well as entry to a fire-placed dining room, that seats sixteen.
Upstairs, in keeping with the integrity of Classical Victorian architecture, are four bedrooms, two on either side of the Center Hall. One of these bedrooms is a Master Bedroom duplex suite with a Victorian Iron spiral staircase leading to a huge bathroom/exercise room. Fold-down stairs provide access to a widow's walk with a stunning panorama of surrounding fields and woods and Lebanon Shaker Mountain beyond. The first floor has one large bedroom near the dining area. Other features include:
- fire-placed dining room seats sixteen
- very large dining porch overlooking the patio
- jungle gym
- stone cold storage shed
- utility pantry with stove
- colonial kitchen fully equipped with modern
appliances
- venerable maples surrounding the property
- terraced recreation area
- expansive lawns
- a converted carriage barn serving as the pool house
- a very large sitting area furnished with a convertible sofa
bed
- fully lit 44 foot, continuously filtered, in-ground swimming pool has a
slide and diving board, deck and automatic chlorinator
-
a lit skating pond
Payment Accepted: Cheques, Money order or Cash.
Rates: (Prices quoted in US Dollars).
Have the total run of the house for a week
(7 days/6 nights) - Sleeps 20
Regular Weeks - $5000/week
Holiday Weeks - $6000/week
Ask for weekend rates off-season.
Extra night on Holiday weeks possible.
Longer Stays are available.
Security Deposit is $2000/week.
Utilities Deposit $250.
Utilities & Telephone based upon consumption.
Laundry Service Available $350.
Garbage Removal $150 - includes 3 trips, 5 bags, each trip.
Cleaning $450, Pool Cleaning $325, Lawn Care $250.
Rates are for the entire property - not per
person as in an Inn.
Check-in Monday at 3pm & Check-out Sunday at 1pm.