WHERE TO STAY The Beall Mansion bed and breakfast, 407 East 12th Street, (618) 474-9100, beallmansion.com; $99 to over $350 a night.
The DuPont Mansion Bed & Breakfast (1317 South Fourth Street, 502-638-0045), in a large 1884 Italianate house in the historic neighborhood of Old Louisville, has seven rooms for $119 to $229.
In New Orleans, the Hubbard Mansion Bed and Breakfast (3535 St. Charles Avenue, 504-897-3535; www.hubbardmansetn.com), set behind oaks along St. Charles Avenue, blends modern amenities with classic charm for about $160 a night.
The Armstrong Mansion Bed and Breakfast (667 East 100 South, 800-708-1333) has just 15 rooms and offers skiing and dining weekend packages for $349, including dinner and a day's lift ticket.
Mansion House Bed and Breakfast, 105 Fifth Avenue NE, (800) 274-7520, fax (727) 821-6906, www.mansionbandb.com, has 12 tidy rooms, each with different décor and a dataport and Wi-Fi, in two houses dating to the early 1900's, a courtyard garden and swimming pool.
Shafer Baillie Mansion Bed & Breakfast Seattle.
Belvedere Mansion, a bed and breakfast, has the most exquisite restaurant around.
Salimah El-Amin and Ted Larkin were married Saturday at Akwaaba Mansion, a bed and breakfast in Brooklyn.
For $200 a person for two nights (at $1.21 to the punt), we had secured a vast room overlooking the grassy courtyard of the mansion, a full Irish breakfast both mornings (meaning that lunch was going to be pretty much optional) and an evening meal in the formal dining room, where the set-price menu normally costs $42 each.
WHILE YOU'RE LOOKING -- The York Street House Bed & Breakfast (42 York Street, Lambertville; 609-397-3007; www.yorkstreethouse.com), a 1909 mansion retaining many original details, sits on a quiet residential street and offers free wireless Internet.
The postmaster of nearby Denver, Mo., Ms. Cracraft is putting the finishing touches on her new bed and breakfast, a renovated mansion.
