Inn Awareness Week: A List of Sleepers

Fallen Leaf Inn by the Sea, Boston. Romance at the foot of historic Boston Harbor. Tea dancing nightly. Amenities include wood-burning fireplaces, goose-down comforters and obscure novels from the late ‘40s. Watch the autumn foliage from the hot tub. Indian Pudding served in bed by voluptuous women in Revolutionary-era costumes. No smoking. Clam chowder in Ye Olde Tar and Feather dining room.

Peach Cobbler Inn, Atlanta. Sleep in the historic mansion where Margaret Mitchell penned her lesser-known novel, “One Strong Breeze and I’m History.” Traditional Southern fare meets the nouvelle South in the Don’t Give a Darn Dining Room. Specialties include: collards salsa verde, grits with pesto butter and fried paillard of free-range chicken. Flower garden, sun decks, some rooms with antebellum antiques. Southern belle shot from a cannon nightly near the gazebo.

The Gotham Arms, New York. Convenient to the theaters, the shops, the panhandlers and Wall Street’s closing tick. A quaint and cozy inn occupying the 37th to 42nd floors of the new Trump Triumph. Dancing nightly in the Maid of Gotham Tavern to Donny and the Trumpettes. Each window decorated with trompe l’oeil scenes of the rustic Hudson River Valley. Only fresh local food served. Fall special: midtown pigeon.

Viking Towers, Minneapolis. Close to town on the wild Lake Minnetonka coast. Historic gingerbread house uniquely rebuilt to resemble a Viking ship. Some rooms with private saunas. Close to hiking, art galleries and hot-air balloons. Fresh butter cookies nightly. Your hosts, Sven and Rita (Babe) Sjogren, famous for their wet martinis and dry humor. Incomparable egg salad sandwiches at Hamlet’s Smorgy.

The Miner’s Cabin, San Francisco. A lovely, rustic setting just minutes away from fabulous Union Square. Hot sourdough biscuits and pain au chocolat each morning in the Last Redwood dining room. Every room uniquely decorated around a ‘49er theme. Don’t miss the Joe and Jennifer Montana honeymoon suite. Ask about the Jerry Rice Catch of the Day. Female impersonators nightly in the Cable Car Lounge.

A Breath of the Stockyards, Chicago. You’ll know you’re in the Windy City when you hear the Mississippi Delta blues in the Richard J. Daley memorial parlor. Minibus to Lyric Opera, Art Institute and Gangster Museum. Little amenities like the pack of Mike Ditka chewing gum under your pillow make this a special place to stay. Not to be missed is the Chicago ethnic buffet, including Polish sausages, deep-dish pizza, Romanian steak-by-the-pound, kosher red hots and Caucasian meat loaf.

Mission de la Bamba, Los Angeles. Follow the way of the padres of Old California as you sleep on imitation mission furniture, dine on Wolfgang Puck-inspired duck-sausage tamales and sip well drinks in the Water Scandal Lounge. Stay in the Spanish Colonial Revival main casa, or enjoy historic Los Angeles in cottages like the House of Seven Clark Gables and the 10-room reconstructed Beverly Hills tear-down. (This is where Joan Didion likes to stay when she’s in town writing letters.) Don’t miss the David Hockney-inspired mural, “Languid Swimming Pool,” behind the Southwest Pueblo Revival Jacuzzi.