The innkeepers have kept the decor simple and authentic. Mass. Captain Isaiah Horton built this house with a shipbuilder's bow roof. Pa. This Colonial stone farmhouse is older than the house George Washington stayed at during the Valley Forge encampment. A stone sink at the inn is said to be one of only two such pre-1700 sinks in the country. The inn sits on four acres just two miles from Valley Forge Park.
Boxwoods line the walkway and ancient trees surround the house.
Each of the three guest rooms is hand-stenciled and features a canopied or brass bed topped with handmade quilts. On the grounds are a swimming pool, walking and hiking trails and the home's original smokehouse. Colonial inn was originally used as a parsonage for the Reverend Rollan Cotton and his wife, Elizabeth Saltonstall. Later, under new owners, an addition to the home operated as Fessenden Tavern from the mid 1700s until the 1800s. The tavern was known as the patriot headquarters during the Revolutionary period.