HBB01 Green Gables Inn, Bed and Breakfast, Pacific Grove, Ca.   The Green Gables Inn was built in 1888 by William Lacy, an English engineer and dabbler in architecture.  The Lacy House, as it was referred to before becoming an Inn, has a history of romance.  True or untrue the story goes that Mr.Lacy had a wife and five children in Los Angeles, but kept his mistress and their daughter in this house he built in secluded Pacific Grove.  Emma Murdock, his mistress, was the daughter of a Virginia plantation owner who lost everything in the Civil War.  They met and became close friends while she was adrift in Los Angeles in the late 1870's.  After Mr.Lacy's death in a boating accident, Emma lived on in the house until her daughter was raised.

HBB02 Glen Auburn Bed and Breakfast, Natchez, MS   Glen Auburn, an exampe of French Second Empire, is historically called the Christian Schwartz House.  Construction began soon after 1873, when the lot was sold to Christian Schwartz.  It is believed the house was completed in 1875, when charges for interior decorations appeared in the papers of a local paint and wallpaper store.  Christian Schwartz is a classic example of the post Civil War merchant class supplanting the economically depressed planter class.  Today the house has been renovated to reflect the 1870's era in which it was built.

HBB03 Grande Anne Bed and Breakfast, Keokuk, IA   The Grande Anne Bed and Breakfast, or C.R. Joy House, was built in 1897 from plans designed by George F. Barber & Company of Knoxville, Tennessee.  It was opened as a bed and breakfast in 1993, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.  This 22-room home is an elaborate example of the Queen Anne home, sitting high on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River.  The house was built by Clyde Royal Joy, who at the time was the 30-year old managing partner of S.F. Baker & Company, a Keokuk-based company which manufactured a line of home and stable remedies, and flavored extracts.

HBB04 Combellack-Blair House, Placerville, CA. William Hill Combellack built this Queen Anne style home in 1895, and resided here until 1924. Soon after, Arthur J. Blair and his family moved in, and they remained here for the next fifty years. Both men were well-respected merchants in the community. The Combellack-Blair house was originally painted bright green and white, but in 1989, it was recolored dusty rose, raspberry, creamy white, and brown-black to reflect a more romantic setting. When visiting this bed and breakfast inn, you feel as though you've stepped back to 1890.

HBB05 Ann Starrett Mansion, Port Townsend, WA. Located in one of the three Victorian seaports listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it symbolizes the beauty of the past. Built in Stick-style, this Renaissance villa was built by George Starrett in 1889 as a wedding present for his wife, Ann.