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Candleberry Inn
Brewster, Massachusetts, United States · Independent · Accessible Luxury
The Candleberry Inn's oldest rooms sit in a Cape Cod house on Brewster's Old King's Highway whose dining room and Seacroft Suite date to about 1780-1790; Senator George Copeland raised the Georgian Federal front in the early 1800s, and his wife Sarah Snow ran a Dame's School for boys in the parlor in the 1820s. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it took its present name in 1992 from the bayberry once used to make colonial candles, and now holds an AAA Four Diamond rating.
- 9 rooms
- Opened 1945
- Neighborhood: East Brewster
About Candleberry Inn
- Clipper-ship captain Francis B. Foster once owned the property before he died at sea.
- In 1945 Alyce and Ollie Lund opened it as a lodging house called The Welcome House, feeding up to twenty-five guests.
- It operated as the Stonecroft Inn in the 1980s before Edward and Jackie Czerniakowski took over in 1992.
- Nine guest rooms split between six in the historic Main House and three in a converted Carriage House.
History
The Candleberry Inn occupies historically significant buildings on the Old King's Highway in Brewster, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its oldest section, the Main House dining room and Seacroft Suite, was built circa 1780-1790, while the Georgian Federal-style building at the front was raised in the early 1800s by Senator George Copeland for his family; his wife Sarah Snow ran a Dame's School for boys in the front parlor rooms in the 1820s.
Over the following century the property passed through the hands of clipper-ship captain Francis B. Foster, who died at sea, and the Ellis family, whose matriarch Delia first took in guests. In 1945 Alyce and Ollie Lund opened it as a lodging house called The Welcome House, feeding up to twenty-five guests. Renamed the Stonecroft Inn in the 1980s, the property became the Candleberry Inn in 1992 when Edward and Jackie Czerniakowski took over, naming it for the bayberry once used to make candles in colonial times. A succession of innkeepers has since preserved the historic home, and in 2025 it passed to a Boston hotelier.
The setting
13-minute walk to Breakwater Beach.
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2026)
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