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Having worked several years in a building with the 301 address, I find myself always drawn to Restaurant 301 at Carter House Inns (carterhouse.com) in Eureka, Calif. Winner of the Grand Award from Wine Spectator ever since 1998, there are over 3,500 selections of fine and unique wines. Locally sourced produce and fresh seafood on the menu daily are a few highlights to meals prepared in the intimate restaurant with a cocktail bar. It is open to the public, and guests at the hotel can’t wait to dine there as the scents of foods waft into the air in the huge Victorian mansion. The building was designed after the 1885 Murphy House in San Francisco. It was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, but Mark Carter found the plans in a Eureka antique store in 1978 and decided to build that house. Guests comment that it really feels like a home more than a Bed and Breakfast Inn, and indeed, it originally was intended to be Mark Carter’s home. Don’t hesitate to try it out. We’ve stayed there several times and have only gotten more attached to being there with each visit.

What to see: Victorian Ferndale Village, Eureka’s Sequoia Park Zoo, beaches and the tallest redwoods on Earth.