Vintage Towers Bed & Breakfast Inn
Historic Vintage Towers Bed & Breakfast Inn is nestled in the little town of Cloverdale, at the very northern top of the Alexander Valley.
Vintage Towers Bed & Breakfast Inn, stately 1901 Queen Anne Victorian, which is also included on the U.S. Historic Register, has had incarnations as a hospital, private home and is now a lovely, garden-wrapped inn, featuring seven antique-furnished rooms, including four elegant suites with fireplaces with all the modern conveniences. Innkeepers Don and Mary Stuart prepare a fantastic three-course gourmet breakfast and afternoon refreshments. Check their specials! You can relax on the wisteria-covered wrap-around veranda with swing, in the gazebo, by the Koi pond or stroll the extensive flower and vegetable gardens. It seems like you have taken a step back to a quieter era, and yet you are only one block to the Cloverdale plaza, dining, shops and spa- there is even a movie theatre and the impressive Cloverdale Performing Arts Center. Don & Mary are your very hospitable, personal concierges and are very knowledgeable about the area.
Welcome to Vintage Towers!
Ahoy, you Koi….
The back….
The front….
The closeup, Mr. DeMille….
If visiting during the summer and fall months, be sure to check out the Friday Night Live at the Plaza and Cloverdale Certified Farmers Market, an easy walk from Vintage Towers and such fun in this charming, small town affectionately known as The ‘dale.
Lots of close-by wineries to the south- like Valdez Family Winery, Silver Oak, and all the gang along Chianti Road, then towards DCV, or AV- or head into Geyserville. And of course, there is always the Russian River, too! (Good old River Slavianka…historical, just like Vintage Towers!)
Here’s looking at you, kids.
TR
This just in from reader Helena:
Hi Tracy,
In today’s Wine Time you mention the Russian River and in the parentheses say something like the good old Slavianka…. I was curious why you chose that term – since it means Slavic woman in Russian. Of course it’s written using the Roman alphabet not the Cyrillic which the Russians use. You may remember that my parents are Polish and I speak Polish so I couldn’t help but wonder – in Polish it’s Slowianka with the l sounding like a w because it has a line through it (which I don’t have on this key board).
Hi Helena!
My kids learned this name for the Russian River when they were in fourth grade at West Side School- in conjunction with traveling up to explore Fort Ross- here is the scoop I have- borrowed offline on an info site:
How did the Russian River in California get its name?
You remember that Russians did occupy the Northern California coast. The Spanish called the river San Ygnacio. The Russians colonist themselves called it “the river Slavianka”, slave woman. In a petition for a Spanish grant in July 19, 1843 called it “la boca de Rio Ruso, ‘the mouth of the Russian River’”. In 1852 The name Russian River appeared on Gibbs map.