In Harrisonburg’s neighborhood of well-kept, handsome old homes, the Joshua Wilton House strikes the highest note. It’s a lovingly renovated and luxuriously equipped mauve, lavender, and pink Queen Anne cottage with triple-decker bays and a turret. Throughout, owners Roberta and Craig Moore have provided a sense of polished professionalism, a put-together look of coordinated decor.
Guests enter by way of a front door surrounded by leaded glass and through a foyer with gleaming parquet floor, a chandelier, and bushy potted plants. Painted mantels and pictures displayed by the Shenandoah Valley Watercolor Association populate the first floor. The guest chambers are really attractive, particularly Room 5, with its four-poster bed and white wing chairs, and Room 4, which has a three-window alcove in the turret. The café is casual, and the restaurant offers fine dining that includes such breakfast specialties as crab-and-cheese omelets.
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