Lizzie Borden B&B: Where you're "treated like family"

Lizzie Borden was set free / Now her home’s a B&B

If you’re not too scared to play / you could win a one-night stay

Okay, it’s not as good as the famous ‘Lizzie Borden took an axe,’ rhyme but if you join the online community at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast Museum get access to things you wouldn’t get otherwise like video views of the rooms and The Lost Lizzie TV, video clips about various episodes in the life of Lizzie. You also get entered into a drawing to win a free night in one of the creepiest pieces of real estate in America. They never did figure out who killed Andrew and Abby Borden…but since the murders happened in 1882 you’re probably safe from the actual killer (if not whatever ghosts might be hanging around). 

Why we are telling you this we’re not sure - every one of you that enters lessens our odds of winning. But if you do sign up and win based on the information you got here we expect a finder’s fee….pictures and a description of your stay to post on TMTwill do in lieu of cash. 

And now, because you know you want it, here’s a bloody clip from the 1975 TV movie The Legend of Lizzie Borden starring Elizabeth Montgomery. (Who with a 70’s childhood didn’t thrill to watching sweet little Samantha Stevens as the terrifying Lizzie?) 

ACCESSIBILITY: Logan Airport is 54 miles from Fall River; the nearest airport is the Theodore Francise Greene Memorial State Airport, 24 miles away. 

HOW MUCH?: Prices for hotel rooms always vary but we randomly shot for two months out, which would be around July 13, 2013 and found the room rates ranged from $219.40 (for Bridget Sullivan’s room) to $274.25 (for the John V. Morse room where Abby Borden’s body was discovered. Sweet dreams.)

What else is there to do there? One is always surprised to find some people are not so morbid as we are. MT's eyebrows went rocketing skyward on discovering that the Lizzie Borden House was not the only attraction or even the most popular one in Fall River. That honor belongs to Battleship Cove, a maritime museum boasting numerous historic naval ships, a recreation of Pearl Harbor Day and even an Overnight Camping Experience where you can bunk military style and wake up to reveille.

     Google Maps puts Battleship Cove - 5 Water Street, Fall River, MA, 02721 - at a four minute drive or 15 minute walk from the Lizzie Bordon House. 

Photo: Wikimedia Commons, public domain
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