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Gettystown Inn at the Dobbin House
Five of its nine rooms are in an 1874 wing of the Leister farmhouse, moved to Steinwehr Avenue in 1888; breakfast is in the 1776 Dobbin House.
- Built
- 1874Leister House (five of the nine rooms): the two-story section Lydia Leister added in 1874 to her Taneytown Road farmhouse (Meade's headquarters in July 1863), moved to 71 Steinwehr Ave in 1888, when she built a two-story rear addition; renovated in 1998. Remembrance House (three suites) and the Little Round Top Farm rental have no published build year.
- Type
- B&B
- Rooms
- 9
- Price
- $
- Area
- Steinwehr Avenue
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district; Local landmark
The story
Lydia Leister, a widow with six children, bought a nine-acre farm with a small log house on the Taneytown Road in 1861, and in July 1863 Union commander George Meade chose her house as his headquarters. The family added a large two-story section in 1874; when Lydia sold the farm to the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association in 1888, she moved that 1874 section to a lot near the Dobbin House (now 71 Steinwehr Avenue), built a rear addition and lived there until her death in 1893. Almost a century later the house became part of the Gettystown Inn, and a 1998 renovation restored the layout it had when it adjoined Meade’s headquarters. Breakfast is served next door in the stone Dobbin House, built in 1776 by Rev. Alexander Dobbin as his home and classical school and used as a hospital after the battle.
The ghost story
Ghost-tour lore holds that guests in the Lee Suite and the Reynolds Room, both in the inn's Leister House, often sense the presence of a fallen Union soldier.
Source: gettysburgghosts.com
Good to know
- Breakfast: included
- No pets
- Address: 89 Steinwehr Ave, Gettysburg, PA 17325
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.