This old white clapboard inn has a nice pub and a more formal dining room.

An hour or so later, we turned into a deep-set harbor, and soon spotted the white clapboard inn at the head of a sloping lawn.

This four-story clapboard inn with a colonial-style porch supported by tall white columns is as jarring as a Key West bungalow on the Boston Common.

But now something new and wonderful has happened to the venerable clapboard inn: it has a New York celebrity chef at the helm.

Twelve comfortable rooms with private bath in an immense old clapboard inn.

Perhaps the biggest attraction of this six-room yellow clapboard inn is that it can be easily reached without a car.

The venerable clapboard inn, now spruced up with a blue facade and yellow awnings, is down the street from the old piano keyboard factory.

The Walmarts and Burger Kings gave way to appealing-looking fish restaurants, small shops and bakeries, white clapboard inns and b & bs.

Atmosphere: Inside a white clapboard inn, a spacious dining room with a low ceiling; two walls of windows offer a view beyond a large porch and over the water.

We happened upon this small white clapboard inn on a recent Saturday night.