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Every building on this site is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the federal list of places judged worthy of preservation, and has a history of taking in travelers: as a tavern, an inn, a resort, a park lodge, or a private house later converted into a bed-and-breakfast. For each one we read the National Register nomination form, the dossier that made the case for listing it, and wrote a short account of its history, its architecture and its setting.
We do not sell rooms, take commissions or publish ratings. We do check, by hand, whether each place still takes overnight guests: 95 of 116 were confirmed on their own websites on October 26, 2026. The rest are described as historic buildings with a lodging history. How we check.
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New England
14 buildings · 6 states
Colonial taverns on the old post roads, Federal and Greek Revival village inns, and the grand hotels of the White Mountains.
Mid-Atlantic
12 buildings · 4 states
Stone taverns of the Pennsylvania turnpikes, Hudson Valley and Catskill resorts, and Gilded Age estates turned inns.
Virginia to Kentucky
15 buildings · 4 states
Mineral-spring resorts of the Alleghenies, Blue Ridge mountain inns and the taverns of the early Kentucky roads.
Deep South and Gulf
10 buildings · 6 states
Charleston town houses, Natchez mansions, Florida boom-era hotels and a Victorian spa hotel in the Ozarks.
Midwest
20 buildings · 7 states
Stagecoach inns of the Old Northwest, Great Lakes resort hotels and lighthouses, Indiana's spa palaces and a Frank Lloyd Wright hotel.
Texas and the Southwest
13 buildings · 4 states
Railroad hotels on the Santa Fe line, adobe and Pueblo Revival inns, Gulf Coast resorts and mining-town hotels.
Rocky Mountains
12 buildings · 4 states
Log and stone national-park lodges, Colorado mining-boom hotels and a Wild West showman's inn.
Pacific Coast, Alaska and Hawaii
20 buildings · 5 states
Park lodges of Yosemite, Mount Rainier and Crater Lake, Mission Revival landmarks, coastal inns and Waikiki's first hotel.
Read the building: a style guide
All 18 styles →Through time
From Sun Inn (1758) to Izaak Walton Inn (1939), these buildings trace how Americans traveled: post roads and turnpikes, steamboats and railroads, spa resorts, national parks and the motor age. See them on a timeline.
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