Located on a quiet street lined with 150 year old maple trees, Mary’s Meadow Bed and Breakfast is a five minute ride from the college hamlet of Cazenovia, New York, and 15 miles from the university city of Syracuse. Built in 1810, she is an early salt-box design farmhouse of post and beam construction retaining much of her original framing, doors, windows w/original glass, trims mouldings and most other features. A family home for her 200 years, she stands remarkably well preserved, and is well prepared to begin her second life as a country bed and breakfast.
Situated on two and a half acres of gardens and woodlands she stands with her ‘hops barn’ companion as a vestige of a once prospering farm of thousands of acres on which was grown for local breweries the valuable but temperamental crop hops. Remaining as testaments are the majestic black locust trees, planted and grown for fencing material, the old spring boxes and livestock troughs which collected water from the hill behind the house, and, along with many other items of interest, the wide array of beautiful flowers and shrubs which were collected and nurtured here by, among others, the ‘Mary’ of Mary’s Meadow, Mrs. Mary Burr Gibson (1855-1951).
Mary’s Meadow offers four upstairs bedrooms with en suite bathrooms remodeled in 2010. The three largest rooms come with king-size beds and the fourth with a circa 1860 ¾ size iron bed and a twin daybed. For those very special occasions, we offer Mary’s Meadow Suite. This is the largest of all the aforementioned rooms measuring in at a grand 22 feet by 23 feet. This room boasts a king-size bed, sitting area with fireplace, luxury bathroom with claw-foot bathtub and shower.
The ground floor for our guests consists of a parlor/sitting room with wood-burning fireplace and the dining room also with a wood-burning fireplace. Available at breakfast time are the living room with a wood-burning stove, and a three season sun porch overlooking the gardens that may be used as a seasonal breakfast room, (weather permitting).