Bed and Breakfast Association of Virginia

Littlepage Inn

An Authentic 1811 Plantation Home & 7 Outbuildings on 130 Acres.

Two old fieldstone gate posts at the head of an avenue of cedars mark the beginning of your trip back in time. Follow this country lane beyond the gate to the large white frame house and visit a special place out of our nation's past.

The center hall door opens in welcome and there you find a plantation home aesthetically as it was in 1811, untreated heart pine floors and painted graining on the doors and wainscot panelling, stairs worn by the footsteps of six generations.

Enjoy the warm and gracious ambiance of the spacious rooms, their light and proportion. Of their period furnishings, many are original to the family, some made on the place.

Here indeed is the world of 1811, a Federal era home of exceptional detailing and character, refined to modern standards of comfort with full climate control and modern kitchen and baths.

Here you can take a moment to live, to love this place in a way that is not possible at the wonderful museum houses of the region.

For a unique excursion, plan to visit some of the recreational areas or fascinating places nearby, but spend your nights with us. The hospitality of Prospect Hill, the life and love of place, has been a Holladay faily hallmark for six generations, and as the LITTLEPAGE INN, this historic home welcomes you to a new experience of American life nearly two centuries in the past.

Littlepage Inn, with its main house and farm office, east barn, smokehouse-dairy, ice house, barn, stable and gardens, stands as a remarkably well preserved example of an early 19th century Virginia plantation. The historic significance and fine craftsmanship of the house and dependencies have earned it a place on both the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register.

Waller Holladay began to acquire plantation land in 1803 with an inheritance from his half brother General Lewis Littlepage, a European adventurer and court representative during the early years of the American Republic.

General Littlepage's legacy enabled Waller and his wife Huldah to engage Spotswood Dabney Crenshaw to build the main house at Prospect Hill (historic name of Littlepage Inn) in 1811-1812, where they raised thirteen children. Their youngest son, James Minor Holladay, was captured at the Civil War battle of Five Forks, only eight days before Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Months later, after his release from the Federal prison camp at Point Lookout Maryland, James walked home to Prospect Hill, his wife Lucy and their two small toddlers. James and Lucy brought the farm back to successful operation, and in the 1880's added a large wrap-around porch, the only significant addition to Prospect Hill until 1991.

In 1991-1996 Prospect Hill was carefully restored by the Holladay family members of the fifth and sixth generations.

It has been chosen as a recipient of the Annual Great American Home Award (Interior Category) by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

In addition to the manor house, seven dependencies have been restored, with suites available in the east barn, the granary, and the plantation office.

Now this old family home welcomes guests as the Littlepage Inn.