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GARDEN OASIS
The Baker House 1650 suits all tastes in East Hampton.

And finally, here's the past as heritage. Baker House is a 1650 home that in 1911 was transformed into an Elizabethan-style manor by that era's Charles Gwathmey, Joseph Greenleaf Thorpe, the architect who did Grey Gardens among numerous other mansions, many in the gambrel style. Here, though, he went off on an inspired tangent, ransacking the Elizabethan playbook brilliantly: molded plaster ceiling paneling in the living room, coffered wood paneling in the lobby sitting room, tall eaves faced with strapwork (a decorative version of half-timbering), and those small-paned windows that give Elizabethan-style facades their inimitable rhythm.

I stayed in Maidstone, one of the top suites and a sonata of green. I've stayed in scores of luxury hotels around the world, but have rarely been so taken with a room. It's not the largest or the most luxurious room that I've ever had, but it wraps you in a cashmere throw of the past-reproduction William Morris wallpaper of twirling tendrils, three-over-five small paned windows that look across to Mulford Farm, embracing armchairs, and a window seat long enough to stretch out on, which my companion promptly did, purring the afternoon away here with a book.

The garden feels like the English countryside: 200-year-old wisteria vines agony-twisted up to the crossbeams of an arbor, and cypress trees formed an honor guard down the far side of the property. Loungers were strewn about in front of the small pool, which has been beautifully worked into the landscape. Over the hedge, there's an expanse of lawn with mature trees-hoop-skirted evergreens and obese rhododendrons ready to bloom-leading to the Carriage House, a two-suite compound with its own pool, much larger than the one behind the main house. (Baker House stands out among Hamptons luxury inns for having a pool at all, as it does for the small gem of a spa in the basement, which has its own pool, sauna, and jacuzzi.)

The room to get in the Carriage House is the Loft Suite, an open-plan garret of white, taupe, and beige with a big sleigh bed, a shower for two, and a deck flanked by gables. It's $1,500 a night in season, and as you suspected, in season it's always booked. However, I'd be quite happy waking up to see the hand-hewn wooden beams of The Hedges, one of the smallest rooms in the original part of the house. Past perfect. 181 Main St., East Hampton, 324-4081; bakerhouse1650.com H

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THE BAKER HOUSE 1650
The Baker House 1650, a 17th Century English manor and year-round retreat that takes the words "bed" and "breakfast" seriously.

Many of the seven unique rooms?five in the main house and two in the newly remodeled carriage house?have balconies, sitting areas and wood-burning fireplaces, but all feature flat-screen TVs, large beds with Kingsdown mattresses, Frette linens and towels, and lavish private bathrooms with spa-type tubs and L'Occitane products. For additional rejuvenation, there's even a spa on the property - a rarity in the Hamptons - that boasts an endless swimming pool, a steam shower, a sauna and a Jacuzzi. (Guests can also reserve the spa for private massages or facials.)

And while the inn's luxurious rooms and common areas will have you savoring the night hours, the delectable Baker Breakfast will have you anticipating the morning. A spread of homemade pastries (including berry cobblers; banana bread; scones; and lemon, blueberry and carrot cakes), fresh seasonal fruit from Hampton Market, Citarella and Round Swamp Farm; fresh-squeezed juices; and Hampton brand coffee greets you in the gardenside breakfast room. If a hot breakfast is more to your liking, dishes can also be made to order. The menu changes daily, but expect to find two egg-based dishes, like omelets with seasonal vegetables and herbs that are grown in the backyard, as well as something sweeter from the grill, such as Swedish pancakes with lingonbeny jam, cinnamon-bread French toast, or yeast-raised waffles.

You have the options of dining in your room or seated inside the charming breakfast space, but we suggest having your meal outside in the inn's magnificent English garden, with its vine-covered walls, 200-year-old wisteria tree and well-groomed lawn surrounding an infinity pool?which, if the weather is on your side, is perfect for an after-meal dip. From $395 per night through Dec. 1, 181 Main St., East Hampton, bakerhouse1650.com ?Camille Hunt

THE BAKER HOUSE, EAST HAMPTON
MEET ME in the GARDEN Hotels offer outdoor spaces for a cool drink or quiet reflection BY TESSA RAEBECK

In motor inns and chain hotels across the country, the bed is often the most coveted part of the visit. But out here on the East End, the hotel experience goes past the guest's room to include fine dining, furnished sitting rooms and, perhaps most importantly, the gardens and grounds. The hotels of the North and South Forks are not limited to a building, a parking lot, and maybe a fenced-in pool; guests are drawn to beautiful water views, fields of flowers and manicured lawns flanked by hydrangea bushes.

At the Baker House on East Hampton's historic Main Street, a 200-year-old wisteria tree forms an arbor in the middle of the grounds.

"It's very much an English country garden," said Kathy McCormack of the Baker House.

On one side of the yard is a well, on the other a pristine light blue pool cascades on one side with a waterfall into a lowered stone siding. An espalier--a tree whose branches are trained to grow flat against a wall, supported on a lattice or a framework of stakes?supports apple trees that "just grow right on it, so you can see the formation of the trees right on the wall," Ms. McCormack said.

More wisterias, roses, lilies, hydrangeas and a "beautiful" magnolia tree also decorate the lawn, she said, as do French hydrangeas that frame the entire back trellis.

East Hampton is located at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island. From beautiful mansions to pristine beaches, designer shops to jaw-dropping nurseries, the Hamptons are exquisitely picturesque. But from Memorial Day through Labor Day not only can finding a room be difficult, the throngs of people traversing the main highways to get out there can be paralyzing (literally and figuratively). So why fight the crowds? Take advantage of the shoulder season and make a trip during September & October. The Baker House 1650, located on Main Street in East Hampton is an award-winning inn offering beautiful accommodations and top-of-line services and amenities.

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Welcome to the first-ever edition of Curbed Hamptons 'Hotel 18 map', your answer to the question, "Where should I stay in the Hamptons ?" We selected the 18 hotels, with your input, that we feel are most important to the Hamptons. Some are expensive, some are more moderate, but all have character. When you stay in these hotels, you know you are someplace special.

Welcome to the first-ever edition of Curbed Hamptons 'Hotel 18 map', your answer to the question, "Where should I stay in the Hamptons ?" We selected the 18 hotels, with your input, that we feel are most important to the Hamptons. Some are expensive, some are more moderate, but all have character. When you stay in these hotels, you know you are someplace special.

Welcome to the first-ever edition of Curbed Hamptons 'Hotel 18 map', your answer to the question, "Where should I stay in the Hamptons ?" We selected the 18 hotels, with your input, that we feel are most important to the Hamptons. Some are expensive, some are more moderate, but all have character. When you stay in these hotels, you know you are someplace special.

Welcome to the first-ever edition of Curbed Hamptons 'Hotel 18 map', your answer to the question, "Where should I stay in the Hamptons ?" We selected the 18 hotels, with your input, that we feel are most important to the Hamptons. Some are expensive, some are more moderate, but all have character. When you stay in these hotels, you know you are someplace special.

TOWN & COUNTRY

At the far eastern end of Long Island, a forty-mile stretch of bucolic beach towns beckons with an unexpected mix of rustic charm and glossy high style. Though it was cultivated for decades as an insular retreat for New Yorkers, the Hamptons has emerged of late as one of the most inviting locations for travelers worldwide.

Above all else, the natural beauty of this part of the world is hard to match. The Hamptons may indeed appear to be something straight from a Hollywood sound-stage, yet to those who migrate here cyclically with the tidal pull of summer, this is the most authentic of American retreats.

EAST HAMPTON The lively village of East Hampton encompasses a compelling mix of sequestered residential enclaves and formidable public thoroughfares for shopping and dining. Vying for your attention here is Ralph Lauren, with no fewer than four outposts, as well as Gucci, Tory Burch, Catherine Malandrino, Tiffany, Coach, ElieTahari and J. Crew. Beaches range from the private shores of the Maidstone Club and the Georgica Association tot he public Main Beach, where you're just as likely to have a bona fide 

In the 19th century, East Hampton was one of the first towns in the area to open accommodations for travelers, and it still plays host to the most impressive lineup of inns, all of them beautifully aged and restored, on the same idyllic stretch of Main Street near Town Pond. At the head of the class is the Baker House 1650, which has just seven rooms and the most immaculate interior and grounds, including 200-year-old wisteria vines.

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SPECIAL OCCASION

This is my favorite place to stay in the Hamptons. As one guest remarked on my last visit, the Baker House reminded them of an elegant farmhouse in which they had stayed in Provence. 

Designed in 1910 from a 1648 farmhouse, this architectural marvel is a stunning property and unlike anything you have experienced before. Beautifully decorated in period antiques and comfortable furniture, the public rooms include a wood paneled reading room with a fireplace and a living room, also with a massive fireplace, with 3 separate sitting areas. One overlooks the rear gardens, one is in front of the fireplace and one surrounds an antique piano, a John Broadwood& Sons, from London. There are cushioned window seats throughout the cottage and in many of the rooms. 

The low, beamed ceiling breakfast room with French doors to the patio also has a bar and a couch and chair fronting a wood stove. Guests gather there at cocktail hour and help themselves to an honor bar. Have what you like and write it down on a pad. Liquor, beer, wine champagne and soft drinks and snacks are avaiable 24 hours a day. 

In 2001 a wonderful spa was added on the lower level. The music filled oasis is a soothing and tranquil respite from the drinking and dining pleasures of your weekend. The slate floor, brick walled facility has a steam room, sauna, exercise equipment and a swim-in-place lap pool. Thick terry robes are provided and massages can be arranged by management. 

There are only 5 bedrooms and with the exception of Room #15, which has twin beds, any one will do fine. My two favorites, however, are Room #12, a huge room overlooking the village green, with a king sized bed, love seat and ottoman, fireplace and Jacuzzi tub and Room #14, also overlooking the green, with dark walls, beamed ceilings, a queen bed, fireplace and claw footed tub. Other amenities include television, a sound machine, down comforters, big thick towels and Gilchrist &Soames toiletries. 

Coffee, juice, cereal and homemade muffins, fresh from the oven and newspapers are available at 7:30am in the breakfast room or on the patio. A full breakfast is served at 8:30am.

The Baker House 1650, East Hampton, NY Regarded by critics and guests alike as the most exclusive and luxurious small hotel in the Hamptons, The Baker House 1650 has a distinctive European fell with ivy-covered walls and beautiful formal English gardens. Less expected are state-of-the-art amenities such as flat-screen TVs, wireless Internet, two swimming pools (one indoors and one infinity-edge outdoors), and The Baker Spa, providing unparalleled luxury. 

Not really a cottage and certainly not poor, this could be the place to stay if you want to feel as if you have not only a house in the Hamptons, but your own estate. Tucked discreetly behind a stucco wall diagonally across from East Hampton's town pond it was opened a few yews ago by the former owners of the nearby Maidstone Arms. The house was designed in 1910 by Arts and Crafts architect Joseph Greenleaf Thorp and incorporated an older 1648 farmhouse. Now it looks like an elegant but comfy country manor with all the amenities of a luxury hotel. Though it has only five rooms, there is a new subterranean spa, only for guests, with one of those swim-in-place resistance lap pools and private massage rooms.

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The Baker House 1650, located on Main Street, offers some of the most luxurious accommodations on the East End. It has five individually decorated rooms with spectacular views overlooking either the English gardens toward the rear of the property or the Village Green in front. 

Originally built in 1648, the Baker House was re-created by Gary and Rita Reiswig who renovated the building in 1996. East Hampton and Manhattan residents Antonella and Bob Rosen took the reins last year, and have sculpted the Reiswigs' successful venture into a retreat that features some of the finest accommodations on the East End. 

Country-inspired decor coupled with wood burning fireplaces and flat screen TVs may leave summer guests longing for winter. The generously sized bathrooms, many with spa tubs, feature L'Occitane bath products and robes by Mascioni, further emphasizing that the establishment pays attention to every detail. 

Breakfast at the Baker House 1650 is equally extraordinary, emphasizing local, organic products and featuring homemade fare like lemon pancakes and apple tartetatin. Guests can enjoy these culinary treats in the English garden, nearly and acre of flowers, evergreens, herbs, a lush lawn and climbing vines including a 200-year-old wisteria. The garden's centerpiece is an infinity pool, surrounded by teak lounge chairs. 

The spa, completed in 2000, offers guests unusual luxuries for a B&B like a lap pool, and massage, facial and purification treatments. For beach-going guests, the Baker House 1650 provides the much in demand but short in supply parking permits to all the village beaches, as well as towels, beach chairs and umbrellas. 

Within walking distance to Main Beach and the village shopping district, and with manager Kathy McCormack and assistant manager Heather McCormack fulfilling most every whim, the Baker House 1650 is a B&B for those looking for a vacation in the lap of luxury.

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Peruvian tour de force Antonella Bertello-Rosen and her husband, Bob, stunningly revamped the former J.Harper Poor Cottage in East Hampton in 2005, transforming the 1648 Tudor-style building into a world-class escape with five ultraluxe guest rooms. Sure, the location is perfection, just minutes from East Hampton shopping and dining, but once you check in, we predict you may choose never to venture farther afield—on our last visit, we honestly never shed our bathrobes.

Step inside and enter a world of extreme comfort and impeccable taste thanks to arts-and-crafts sensibilities tempered with rich textures and overstuffed furnishings. Our favorite room is the Maidstone, outfitted with William Morris wallpaper and housing a heavenly sleigh bed, wood-burning fireplace, decadent spa tub, and bay windows overlooking historic Mulford Farm and Main Street. We're also mad for the Gardiner Suite, which opens onto the inn's amazing garden with its 200-year-old wisteria vine, pergola, and intimate swimming pool.

Head downstairs and sip a glass of wine at the honor-system bar (drink as you please and keep track yourself), read a book in the library, or visit the beautifully designed basement with its lap pool, sauna, steam shower, and treatment room where guests might partake of numerous massages, facials, and body polishes. Delicious!

 The magnificently refurbished Baker House 1650 (formerly the J.Harper Poor Cottage) in East Hampton has been recognized as one of the finest luxury inns in the United States. It was named "Inn of the Month" by Travel and Leisure magazine, and Town and Country said the cottage "offers the kind of plush accommodations that you'd expect to find in an area famous for its residential real estate." Time Out New York said "the most distinctive B&B on the East End is so mind-bogglingly gorgeous that it's hard to believe anyone is actually allowed to sleep here."