Seven Hills Inn, a classic brick, white-columned Southern Colonial dwelling in the heart of Lexington’s historic Main Street district, was built in 1928 as a fraternity house for nearby Washington and Lee University. Hence the expansive living room (with fireplace), dining room, and casual downstairs chapter room (also with a fireplace as well as TV with VCR and games). It’s doubtful, though, that the house had such an impeccably fresh and inviting appearance when the college crowd occupied it. Ben Grigsby, a Washington and Lee alum-nus, bought the place and restored it, removing walls between the small fraternity bedrooms to create large guest rooms. When Ben’s work sent him out of the country, he asked his mother, Jane Daniel, and innkeeper Shirley Ducommun to operate the bed-and-breakfast.
The pale-yellow third-floor Holly Hill Room, with a sloping ceiling, has a bath that’s bigger than the bedroom. Fruit Hillhas awhirlpooltub and a four-poster queen-size bed, and it can be opened into a suite with a parlor.
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