Simmons-Bond Inn


This historic two-story, 1903 mansion is rife with interesting and quirky details, such as a built-in china cabinet that once served as a pie safe, a hidden bathroom in the Colleen room (which is also home to famed journalist Nellie Bly's original oak traveling-writing desk), and late-18th-century heirlooms, ornate woodwork and leaded glass throughout.

The blue-toned Tiffany room (with color-coordinated claw-foot bathtub) is our favorite of the five rooms, but it's hard to go wrong surrounded by this much history.


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