ESCAPE: A historic Pennsylvania inn revitalizes a Gilded Age resort town
By Brad Gooch — If you’re looking for a haute hideaway, program your GPS, drive straight into the über-romantic, 19th-century American landscape painting of the Delaware Water Gap — with its misty, tumbling cascades and craggy cliffs — and make a sharp right just after crossing the New Jersey state line into northeastern Pennsylvania. You won’t be in the look-alike Hudson River Valley, but rather in the oft-painted, though less publicized, Delaware River Highlands. There you’ll find the comfortably lived-in resort town of Milford (population 1,100) and, boldly set on one of Broad Street’s more picturesque corners, the three-story Italianate Hotel Fauchère, proud in pristine white with black shutters…
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