The Hartness House is a historic Vermont Bed and Breakfast

The Governor's Library where Afternoon Tea is served

and elegant and romantic inn in Springfield, Vermont offering accommodations with 45 rooms, all with private baths, modern amenities, and a fine dining restaurant in a beautifully restored 1904 country mansion and estate.  This romantic B&B inn is a favorite holiday destination inn for Vermont Autumn and New England fall foliage, Bed and Breakfast vacation packages and popular lodging site for Okemo Vermont ski lodging, country weddings, wedding receptions, Civil Unions ceremonies, romantic getaways, anniversary parties, family reunion site, church and spiritual group retreats, Crown Point Country Club golf packages, and business conferences or training seminar.

The Library and grand fireplace

The hotel offers wide landscaped lawns, beautiful wedding gardens, outdoor swimming pool, and park-like surroundings that make for an enchanting outdoor location for a wedding site.  We feature a wide variety of hotel accommodations with a romantic restaurant offering fine dining and casual fare, and a tavern with an extensive wine cellar.

Our sweeping three-story staircase

The Hartness House, historic New England country inn, is set on the beautiful 35 acre estate of the former governor of Vermont and is listed on the National Register of Historic places.  We welcome you to vacation and experience a Vermont B&B where time stands still, the brooks run clear, and the hospitality is from the heart.

The Hartness House offers a variety of Bed and Breakfast Weekend Getaway Packages, Romantic Getaway Packages, Golf Packages, Group Motorcoach Tours, Family Reunion Packages, Okemo Ski Packages, Church Retreats, and Vermont New England Fall Foliage Tour Packages.

Bed and Breakfast Weekend Getaway Packages

Perfect for romantic getaways Intimate restaurant on-site

Getaway for a weekend vacation to our romantic Vermont Bed & Breakfast.  We offer fine dining and lodging in a lovely Southern Vermont location.  Our Vermont Bed and Breakfast Getaway Packages offer the convenience of a complete weekend vacation including lodging, dinner for two in our romantic restaurant, and breakfast for each day of your stay.

For the romantic at heart, we offer our Romantic Getaway Packages which include: a welcome cocktail in our stone tavern, a wine and cheese platter in your room, two-nights lodging, a romantic five-course dinner served by candle-light, and a hearty country-style breakfast with a newspaper for each morning of your stay.   Make your weekend extra special with our Ultimate Romantic Package with the Champagne Breakfast in Bed treat and includes lodging in our fireplace and whirlpool bath suite.

Vermont Wedding Site, Reception Location Venue

Outdoor weddings in our Wedding Gardens

Get married in Vermont.  The Hartness House is Vermont's leading romantic destination wedding site and your ideal wedding location to host your elope, country wedding , holiday special function , civil union , holiday office party , anniversary party , wedding reception , dinner theater, murder mystery weekend, fall foliage and group tour .

If you decide to elope, we have our favoriteVermont Bliss Elope packages.   Our elopement packages include: luxury accommodations, a welcome package in your room, use of our historic Library for your private ceremony, a romantic candle-lit dinner, and a Champagne Breakfast in Bed the next morning.

The hotel offers wide landscaped gardens and lawns, private wedding gardens and park-like surroundings that make for a perfect outdoor location a as garden wedding site, vow renewal ceremony and wedding reception site. We feature hotel accommodations with a restaurant offering fine dining and casual fare, and a pub with an extensive wine cellar for your wedding rehearsal dinner or reception.  

The inn has three indoor dining rooms, and a magnificent wedding garden capable of hosting up to 300 guests outdoors. The Hartness House has an award-winning restaurant that can tailor your menu to your special needs including rehearsal dinner and bridal showers. The Hartness House provides excellent opportunities for photography starting with a unique three-story sweeping stairway, historical rooms with antiques, and beautiful landscaped lawns and enchanting wedding gardens with pergola, fountains and gazebos.  Our wedding planners can organize a weekend-long wedding, elope, vow renewal ceremony, honeymoon, or civil union ceremony for your special event at the Hartness House for less than the cost of a simple wedding reception in Connecticut, Boston or New York.

Romantic horse-drawn carriage weddings

Hold your next banquet, ceremony  or special function in the luxury of a country mansion estate.  We are one of the top Vermont romantic wedding reception and civil union sites .  Download our Planning Guides for more information about hosting your Wedding or Civil Union ceremony or planning a Banquet or Meeting at the Hartness House.   Or choose one of our popular romantic wedding packages that simplify planning a wedding that can be quickly arranged.  If you prefer, select our Honeymoon package, and have full use of our Honeymoon Suite for two days, full use of all facilities for your Wedding and Bridal Party photography, and a romantic Champagne Breakfast in Bed.  Custom design your own traditional wedding cake and add it to your wedding package.

Award-winning Romantic Restaurant

Governor's Room Restaurant Romantic fine dining

Our Vermont inn features a healthy seafood fine dining restaurant that is open daily from Thursday through Saturday for dinner. We offer a wide variety of New England seafood and Vermont grilled meat specialties, and unique Chef's Specials each evening. We pride ourselves in offering the healthiest dining choices available in restaurants.

Our restaurant can easily cater all of your weddings, country wedding , wedding reception , anniversary , family reunion , group and corporate meeting functions .  From a complete Vermont country breakfast to interesting New England seafood and grill cuisine served in a romantic, candle-lit dining room that will put the spark back into your evening.

  We also have a variety of romantic weekend getaway, bed and breakfast lodging, and country inn dining packages to accommodate all your needs.

The Perfect Family Reunion Destination

The Hartness House Inn has everything to make your family reunion a success

Let the Hartness House help you plan your family reunion.  The Hartness House Inn is Vermont's popular destination for family reunions. 

We offer economically-priced all-inclusive family reunion packages to meet all budgets with special discounts for children.  We can host family reunions up to 120 guests comfortably in our 45 rooms.  Our accommodations range from luxury suites to comfortable, contemporary rooms and many with adjoining doors for large families.  We offer a complete range of dining services in our extra large dining halls.  We can host breakfast, lunch, dinner, barbeques, and outdoor events for groups from 20 to 200 and match your special dietary needs with customized menus.

The Hartness House Inn is situated on a 35 acre estate with mountain, lush forests, hiking paths, brooks and streams, gardens, sweeping lawns, meadows, and many open areas for outdoor family activities.  Nearby we have national parks, rivers, lakes, beaches, and two ski resorts offering mountain hiking and biking.

The Hartness House Inn is an unmatched destination for other reasons: we have our own historical telescope and observatory and astronomy museum; hiking paths leading to the "Seven Bridges" with coded symbols that must be decoded; and an outdoor barbecue location where you can hold your own  country western hoedown with music and dancing, and an authentic barbeque fire pit grilling up your favorite barbeque specialties.   Enjoy our outdoor swimming pool.  

James Hartness-Russell Porter Astronomy Museum

Hartness 1910 Equatorial Tracking Telescope and Observatory

The Hartness House is home to the James Hartness-Russell Porter Astronomy Museum hosted in cooperation with Stellafane. This museum features important amateur astronomy instruments and telescopes, and the antique 1910 Hartness Equatorial Tracking Telescope and Observatory.

Stellafane's Virtual Museum of the James Hartness-Russell Porter Astronomy Museum collection at the Hartness House can be viewed here .   The museum features many historic astronomy exhibits and works of arts and guided tours are limited and only available by reservation only. The Hartness House features an unique underground museum and an antique 1910 Equatorial Tracking Refractor telescope with Brashear lens housed in an unique observatory.   The museum collection offers interesting exhibits including Hale Observatory in Mount Palomar drawings, Porter Garden Telescope, Cassegrain and Coude telescopes and photographs, Hartness sundial, 1917 Fullam 10" reflector telescope , lens grinding exhibits and photographs of the early Hartness House. The Hartness Astronomical Observatory features a 10" Brashear refractor telescope with an equatorial tracking system that was invented and placed into operation in 1910 and patented in 1912.  The Hartness Observatory is reached from the inn by way of a secret 240 foot underground tunnel.  Also, located nearby, the Miller Art Center and Museum also provides a historical look at the history of James Hartness and the Hartness House.

Okemo Ski Packages and Ascutney Ski Packages

Enjoy a romantic weekend skiing at Okemo and Ascutney

Getaway for President's weekend vacation to our Vermont Bed & Breakfast.  We offer romantic fine dining and lodging in a lovely Southern Vermont location.  Our President's Week Vermont Bed and Breakfast Getaway Packages offer the convenience of a complete weekend vacation including lodging, dinner for two in our romantic restaurant, and breakfast for each day of your stay.

Thinking about romantic things to do - we offer our Romantic Getaway Packages which include: a welcome cocktail in our stone tavern, a wine and cheese platter in your room, lodging, a romantic five-course dinner served by candle-light, and a hearty country-style breakfast with a newspaper for each morning of your stay.   Make your weekend extra special with our Ultimate Romantic Package with the Champagne Breakfast in Bed treat.

Your best value for Okemo and Ascutney ski lodging packages

The Hartness House Inn is your best value for Okemo and Ascutney Ski and Stay ski lodging.  We offer a low cost ski lodging package that include lodging and a full country-style breakfast.  We are just 20 minutes to Okemo mountain and Ascutney mountain and just 30 minutes to Sunapee Mountain in New Hampshire.  There is a full service restaurant and tavern on premises.  See us for your next Okemo ski holiday getaway and save some money.

When visiting Okemo and Ascutney visit our Governor's Room restaurant for the best in New England fine dining. 

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