This popular small hotel in downtown Charlottesville is near three preferred eateries, Memory and Company, C&O, and Metropolitan. The complex consists of two Victorian homes built between 1850 and 1900, painted yellow, which cheers up South Street considerably. They’re brimming with English and Belgian antiques, some newly reupholstered, and including spacious armoires and lace-canopied four-posters. The walls, many freshly repainted, are lined with occasional displays of local art and an interesting collection of historic Holsinger photographs. The 10 rooms and suite in no. 200 are a cut above those in the neighboring cottage, because there’s a parlor there, and train tracks in back make a front room desirable. But all the rooms are inviting and immaculately renovated, and some of them contain such luxuries as whirlpool baths and fireplaces.
Youthful innkeeper Brendan Clancy fixes breakfast, and in the afternoon, tea and wine are served in the sitting room. Brendan is also happy to direct the adventurous to an indoor skating rink or the somewhat more sedentary to a six-screen movie theater, both one block away.
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