Enjoy country elegance in our luxuriously appointed guest rooms and suites. Rooms include plush bedding and stately decor. For more privacy, guests can stay in one of our two cottages featuring fully-stocked kitchens and washer/dryer, and overlooking the meadows. Each morning enjoy a splendid breakfast served on fine china. We are the only bed and breakfast in the Brandywine Valley which offers hands-on cooking classes taught by professional chefs. We are only minutes from all the Brandywine Valley attractions including Longwood Gardens, the Brandywine River Museum, Winterthur, Nemours, Hagley, and the wineries of the Brandywine Valley Wine Trail. We are not far from downtown Philadelphia and its major universities, and if you like bird watching, we are only 20 minutes from the Heinz National Wildlife Refuge. Also nearby are Ridley Creek State Park, Tyler Arboreum, and Scott Arboreum.
History of Hamanassett Bed & Breakfast “…located on the top and slope of a fine hill with more than three-fourths of the land covered with a luxuriant growth of noble woods…it was modelled on Downings Northern Farmhouse, built of hard, dark gray stone taken from the land…and he chose the Indian name of a small river by which his forefathers had settled, and he called it ‘HAMANASSETT’.” “Hamanasset” was adapted by Dr. Meigs from the name “Hammonassett” which was the area in Connecticut where his