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Where: 1070 Main St [map], Bridgeport, CT, United States, 06604

The head of housekeeping at Holiday Inn, Bridgeport, Debbie Tooley, has spent the past 20 Christmas seasons constructing gingerbread houses for the hotel lobby.

This year's house is about 4 feet tall;

She bakes and decorates all 400 of the gingerbread cookies herself, adorns the house with hundreds of pieces of candy and pipes icing icicles all along the structure. She even enlisted the hotel engineer, Mike Marrero, to build a collapsible plywood frame that she decorates with her special baked goods.

The tradition started back in `87 when the hotel was a Hilton, and had a pastry chef. Tooly was involved, to say the least, and now replicates the design annually, with minor alterations.

The internet seems to be lacking photos of this triumph in cookie architecture, thus if you make the trip to Bridgeport, please send us a pic.

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