Our 9000 square foot Spanish Georgian Mansion is situated on a half acre in the Garland Hill Historic District , which is on the National Register of Historic places and is a designated Virginia Landmark. The Inn was built in 1914 for James R. Gilliam, Sr. president of five coal companies, the Lynchburg Shoe Company and six banks throughout the state. A six foot high iron fence, whose three separate entrance gates are anchored in massive concrete piers, surrounds the main house, carriage house and lush landscaping.
Guests arrive driving under the columned porte-cochere.
Twenty-two immense columns ring the 105' Spanish tiled veranda. The double door entry opens onto a fifty foot Grand Hall with soaring ceilings and unequaled cherry and oak woodwork, including great wide cherry columns and thick panelled cherry wainscoting. The oak and cherry main staircase winds up three stories and has 219 balustrades. The second floor is as extravagant as the first. The original central vacuum system, patented in 1907, remains.