This bed-and-breakfast, a few blocks from Gettysburg’s Lincoln Square, is a gray brick Italianate Victorian house built in 1867, with a carriage house in back. The house has a gabled roof and arched windows framed by black shut-ters. Frank and Maribeth Skradski, hosts since 1987, stayed here first as guests and fell in love with the place. Before starting a life of innkeeping, he was a research engineer in Illinois and she owned an antique-clothing shop. There’s a gracious Victorian parlor with a baby-grand piano; a library with lots of books, Civil War memorabilia, and a wonderful collection of old Kodak cameras; and a plant-filled sunroom with a well-stocked refrigerator. Two of the guest rooms have ornamental fireplaces, and all are decorated with Victorian antiques and brass beds, sleigh beds, and iron beds—some so high you have to climb up into them.
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