89.Pickering House Inn: Wolfeboro, New Hampshire
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One of the smallest properties on this year’s list, this “superb New England inn,” as a reader described it, has just ten rooms. But readers love the family-owned inn, which opened in 2018 inside a 19th-century Wolfeboro residence, for its small-town charm and prime location just a few blocks from Lake Winnipesaukee.
Reader Score: 97.00
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90. Riggs Washington D.C.: Washington, D.C.
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The 181 guest rooms at this Penn Quarter property, inside a luxuriously renovated bank building, include four suites dedicated to historical First Ladies. But nothing is stuck in the past, as you’ll see at the subterranean Silver Lyan from star bartender Ryan Chetiyawardana. “The best cocktail experience I’ve had in years,” wrote one reader.
Reader Score: 96.94