Vicksburg ยท Historic Garden District
The Inn at Cedar Grove
John A. Klein's house, begun about 1840 and shelled in the 1863 siege. Book a Mansion Room; the inn gives no build dates for its other buildings.
- Built
- c. 1840Begun ca. 1840 for John A. Klein; the inn says completed 1852, and the nomination describes four building phases over more than thirty years.
- Style
- Greek Revival
- Type
- Inn
- Area
- Historic Garden District
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
Jeweler, banker and landowner John Alexander Klein built Cedar Grove for his bride Elizabeth, and the house grew with their ten children. Union cannon fire struck it during the 1863 siege, and the inn says it was used as a field camp and hospital afterward. Klein built further houses nearby for his children, including The Corners. The Vicksburg Theater Guild saved it from demolition in 1960, and it became a resort hotel in 1981. It closed in 2020, was bought by its current owners in early 2022 and reopened in late 2022. The sources read do not address enslaved people at Cedar Grove.
The ghost story
Barbara Sillery's The Haunting of Mississippi (Pelican Publishing, 2011) gives the inn a chapter. Adria Walker's June 13, 2012 review in the Jackson Free Press, now on the Mississippi Free Press site, says it tells of Mr. Klein, a cigar smoker who hasn't quit even in death, young Willie, who was shot in the chest, and the Bonnie Blue room, where little ghosts are said to play. The book predates the inn's current owners.
Source: www.mississippifreepress.org
Good to know
- Breakfast: included
- Address: 2200 Oak St, Vicksburg, MS 39180
Sources (2)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.