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Pennsylvania

Historic Hotels & Inns in Pennsylvania

From Independence Hall and the Gettysburg battlefield to Pittsburgh’s industrial-era landmarks, the mountain resorts and the old inns of Bucks and Lancaster counties: every historic hotel and inn in the state we could verify.

41 historic places to stay in 23 towns · verified October 2026 · by Historic Inns editors

The short answer

Philadelphia has the most, from the Morris House, a 1786–87 house in Society Hill, to The Bellevue, opened on Broad Street in 1904. In Gettysburg, stay at the Farnsworth House Inn, whose garret the inn says Confederate sharpshooters held in July 1863, or the Lightner Farmhouse, a Union hospital during the battle. In Pittsburgh, book the Omni William Penn, Henry Clay Frick’s 1916 hotel. For a resort, book Omni Bedford Springs, whose oldest building, the Stone House, dates to 1806, or The Hotel Hershey, opened in 1933. In Bucks County, the Logan Inn in New Hope opened as the Ferry Tavern in 1727.

Our top picks

Best small inn

Mansions on Fifth

Built 1906 · Pittsburgh

Attorney Willis F. McCook's 1906 Tudor Revival mansion on Fifth Avenue and the house he built next door for his daughter: 22…

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Oldest

Logan Inn

Built c. 1722 · New Hope

Begun about 1722 by John Wells, one of New Hope's founders, the inn says, and opened in 1727 as the Ferry Tavern…

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Most haunted

Farnsworth House Inn

Built 1810 · Gettysburg

An 1810 house on Baltimore Street whose garret, the inn says, Confederate sharpshooters held in July 1863; the inn also tells its…

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Best resort

The Hotel Hershey

Built 1933 · Hershey

Milton S. Hershey's 1933 hotel on Pat's Hill, built in the Depression to keep local tradesmen working and inspired by a Mediterranean…

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Grand hotel

The Bellevue Hotel

Built 1904 · Philadelphia

Opened in 1904 as the Bellevue-Stratford, the 'Grand Dame of Broad Street', and closed after the 1976 Legionnaires' outbreak; rooms fill floors…

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Where they are

Where to go

Philadelphia7 historic places to stay · founded 1682Oldest: The Morris House Hotel (1787)See the guide →Pittsburgh5 historic places to stay · founded 1758Oldest: The Priory Hotel (1888)See the guide →Gettysburg5 historic places to stay · founded 1786Oldest: Farnsworth House Inn (1810)See the guide →

Every historic inn in Pennsylvania

InnTownBuiltRoomsTypePriceHaunted
Logan InnNew Hopec. 1722–Inn–YesRates
The Limestone InnStrasburg17866B&B–Rates
The Morris House HotelPhiladelphia1787–Boutique hotel–Rates
Omni Bedford Springs ResortBedford1806–Resort–YesRates
Farnsworth House InnGettysburg181012B&B–YesRates
Penn’s View HotelPhiladelphia182851Boutique hotel–Rates
The Sayre MansionBethlehem1858–Inn–YesRates
The Lightner FarmhouseGettysburg18626B&B–Rates
Cork Factory HotelLancaster1865–Boutique hotel–Rates
The Inn at Leola VillageLeola186762Inn–Rates
Penn Wells HotelWellsboro1869–Grand hotel–Rates
GlasbernFogelsville1870–Inn–Rates
The Doylestown InnDoylestown1871–Inn–Rates
Gettystown Inn at the Dobbin HouseGettysburg18749B&B$YesRates
Spencer HouseErie1876–B&B–Rates
Lancaster Arts HotelLancaster188163Boutique hotel–Rates
Eagles Mere InnEagles Mere188717Inn–Rates
The Priory HotelPittsburgh188842Boutique hotel–Rates
Ledges HotelHawley1890–Boutique hotel–Rates
Federal Pointe InnGettysburg189622Boutique hotel–YesRates
Brickhouse InnGettysburg1898–B&B–YesRates
The Industrialist HotelPittsburgh1902124Boutique hotel–Rates
Kimpton Hotel Monaco PittsburghPittsburgh1903–Boutique hotel–Rates
The Bellevue HotelPhiladelphia1904184Grand hotel–Rates
Silver BirchesHawley1904–Resort–Rates
Mansions on FifthPittsburgh190622Boutique hotel–Rates
Kimpton Hotel Monaco PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia1907268Boutique hotel–Rates
Omni William PennPittsburgh1916–Grand hotel–YesRates
Historic Hotel BethlehemBethlehem1922–Grand hotel–YesRates
The George Washington HotelWashington1922–23–Grand hotel–YesRates
Genetti HotelWilliamsport1922205Grand hotel–Rates
The Yorktowne HotelYork1925123Grand hotel–Rates
The Notary HotelPhiladelphia1926–Grand hotel–Rates
The Settlers Inn at Bingham ParkHawley1927–Inn–Rates
Historic Americus HotelAllentown1927–Grand hotel–Rates
The Warwick Hotel Rittenhouse SquarePhiladelphia1928301Grand hotel–Rates
Skytop LodgeSkytop1928–Resort–Rates
The Nittany Lion InnState College1931–Inn–Rates
Loews Philadelphia HotelPhiladelphia1932581Grand hotel–Rates
The Hotel HersheyHershey1933–Resort–Rates
The Lodge at NemacolinFarmington1968–Lodge–Rates

Price is a typical nightly rate: $ under $200, $$ $200–349, $$$ $350–549, $$$$ $550+. Rates vary by season; check the inn for exact prices.

Elsewhere in Pennsylvania

c. 1722Logan Inn

Built c. 1722 · New Hope · Inn

Logan Inn

Why stay Begun about 1722 by John Wells, one of New Hope's founders, the inn says, and opened in 1727 as the Ferry Tavern for the Delaware ferry.

The ghost story Visit Philadelphia relays the story that Revolutionary War troops left dead enemies in the inn's cellar until spring, and guests report chills, air seeming to leave certain rooms and the figure of a tall Revolutionary soldier; the inn itself acknowledges its 'haunted Inn' reputation.

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1786The Limestone Inn

Built 1786 · Georgian with Germanic elements · Strasburg · B&B

The Limestone Inn

Why stay A merchant's 1786 Georgian limestone house that held Strasburg's first post office from 1805, now a six-room B&B.

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Omni Bedford Springs ResortN.V. Deremer / CC BY-SA 3.0

Built 1806 · Federal, Greek Revival and Italianate (NPS) · Bedford · Resort

Omni Bedford Springs Resort

Why stay A mineral-springs resort whose oldest part is the 1806 Stone House; the Colonial Building followed in 1829 and more wings into the 1900s.

The ghost story Historic Hotels of America's 2026 Most Haunted list reports guests and staff seeing children in the Historic Wing and Frontier Tavern, Victorian- and Edwardian-dressed figures at the historic indoor pool, and knocks and a butler-like figure in the Buchanan Conference Room.

Good to know Elevator

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The Sayre MansionShuvaev / CC BY-SA 3.0

Built 1858 · Gothic Revival · Bethlehem · Inn

The Sayre Mansion

Why stay Railroad leader Robert H. Sayre's 1858 Gothic Revival mansion in Fountain Hill, saved from demolition and restored as an inn in the early 1990s.

The ghost story Historic Hotels of America's Most Haunted lists (2024–2026) report mischievous spirits: guests and staff describe unexplained tugs on clothing and televisions switching off, and a washer that vanished during a repair and turned up across the room under the bathmat.

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1870Glasbern

Built 1870 · Fogelsville · Inn

Glasbern

Why stay Joel Mohr's 1870 farmhouse on land Melchior Siep acquired in 1787, a country inn since 1985 with barns moved from other farms; breakfast included.

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1876Spencer House

Built 1876 · Victorian · Erie · B&B

Spencer House

Why stay Bank co-founder Judah Colt Spencer's 1876 mansion on Erie's West Sixth Street, built as a wedding gift for his son William.

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1887Eagles Mere Inn

Built 1887 · Colonial-influenced · Eagles Mere · Inn

Eagles Mere Inn

Why stay A.C. Little's 1887 Hotel Lewis, a boarding house where many workers building Eagles Mere's grand lakeside hotels stayed; it outlasted them.

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1904Silver Birches

Built 1904 · Hawley · Resort

Silver Birches

Why stay The Singers' 1904 homestead, turned into a lakefront inn after Lake Wallenpaupack flooded their farm, and run by the Ehrhardt family since 1943.

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Historic Hotel BethlehemWarren LeMay / CC BY-SA 2.0

Built 1922 · Bethlehem · Grand hotel

Historic Hotel Bethlehem

Why stay Opened in 1922 where Moravian settlers built Bethlehem's first house in 1741, beside the Moravian Church Settlements, a UNESCO site since 2024.

The ghost story Historic Hotels of America says the hotel has about four ghosts, three of them identified, and that guests in room 932 reported waking to a man at the foot of the bed asking 'Why are you in my room?' before he vanished.

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The George Washington HotelCanadian2006 / CC BY-SA 3.0

Built 1922–23 · Beaux-Arts · Washington · Grand hotel

The George Washington Hotel

Why stay Hundreds of residents raised over $1 million in 1922 for this William Lee Stoddart hotel on the National Road; it opened on Washington's birthday.

The ghost story Historic Hotels of America's Most Haunted lists (2024–2026) say ghost hunters, including the TV show Ghost Hunters, report activity on the fourth, eighth and tenth floors, and guests describe the lobby piano playing itself, portraits of George and Martha Washington whose eyes follow them, and figures drinking in Bradford's Lounge.

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1968The Lodge at Nemacolin

Built 1968 · Tudor Revival · Farmington · Lodge

The Lodge at Nemacolin

Why stay Industrialist Willard F. Rockwell's four-story Tudor Revival lodge of 1968, the core of the Nemacolin resort Joseph A. Hardy III bought in 1987.

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Ways in

Themes in Pennsylvania

Gettysburg’s battlefield-era inns

The town of Gettysburg lies inside the Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District, and some of its inns stood through the battle of July 1863. The Farnsworth House Inn’s stone section dates to 1810 and is named for Brig. Gen. Elon J. Farnsworth, killed leading a cavalry charge on July 3. The inn says Confederate sharpshooters held its garret, that one of them is believed to have fired the shot that killed Jennie Wade, the battle’s only civilian casualty, and that more than 100 bullet holes still mark its south wall. Southeast of town, the 1862 Lightner Farmhouse served as a hospital for wounded Union soldiers. On Baltimore Street, the Brickhouse Inn pairs an 1898 Victorian with the Civil War–era Welty House, and west of Lincoln Square the Federal Pointe Inn fills the 1896 Meade School.

Pittsburgh’s industrial-era landmarks

Henry Clay Frick built the William Penn during World War I to rival Europe’s grand hotels; it opened in 1916, and a 1929 annex enlarged it. Downtown office buildings became hotels too: Kimpton Monaco fills the 1903 James H. Reed Building, and The Industrialist the 18-story Arrott Building of 1902, a hotel since 2021. On the North Side, The Priory was built in 1888 for the Benedictine monks of St. Mary’s Church, and in Shadyside, Mansions on Fifth occupies the 1906 Tudor Revival mansion of Willis F. McCook, Frick’s attorney, on Fifth Avenue’s ‘Millionaire’s Row.’

Springs, mountain and lake resorts

Bedford Springs grew up around mineral springs: Dr. John Anderson opened bathing facilities after buying the land in 1796, the Stone House of 1806 is the resort’s oldest building, and Historic Hotels of America says James Buchanan visited more often than any other president. Milton S. Hershey built The Hotel Hershey on Pat’s Hill during the Depression to keep local tradesmen working; it opened in 1933. In the Poconos, Skytop Lodge opened in 1928 on about 2,500 acres with grounds by the Olmsted Brothers, and around Lake Wallenpaupack, Silver Birches and The Settlers Inn served visitors to the lake created in the 1920s. Eagles Mere Inn began in 1887 as the Hotel Lewis, a boarding house that outlasted its lake town’s grand hotels, and in the Laurel Highlands, The Lodge at Nemacolin is a 1968 Tudor Revival lodge.

Bucks and Lancaster counties

In New Hope, the Logan Inn says its original building dates to about 1722 and that it opened as the Ferry Tavern in 1727, serving the Delaware River crossing between Philadelphia and New York. The Doylestown Inn has filled an 1871 building in the Bucks County seat since 1902. In Lancaster County, The Limestone Inn in Strasburg is a 1786 merchant’s house that held the town’s first post office from 1805, and the Inn at Leola Village began with an 1867 tobacco-farm farmhouse. In Lancaster itself, the Lancaster Arts Hotel fills Arnold Falk’s 1881 tobacco warehouse and the Cork Factory Hotel a wing of the old cork works that Armstrong bought in 1895.

Road trip

Philadelphia to Gettysburg, inn to inn

Philadelphia

Start with two nights near Independence Hall, at the Morris House in Society Hill or Kimpton Monaco across Chestnut Street from the hall. Pick from our Philadelphia guide.

Lancaster

Stay at the Lancaster Arts Hotel, Arnold Falk’s 1881 tobacco warehouse, with breakfast and free parking, or drive on to Strasburg for The Limestone Inn, a six-room B&B in a 1786 house.

Hershey

Stop at The Hotel Hershey, which Milton S. Hershey built on Pat’s Hill during the Depression to keep local tradesmen working; it opened in 1933.

Gettysburg

Finish in Gettysburg at the Farnsworth House Inn on Baltimore Street, whose garret the inn says Confederate sharpshooters held, or at the Lightner Farmhouse, which served as a Union hospital in July 1863.

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Context

History and architecture

Pennsylvania’s ratifying convention met in Independence Hall and approved the Constitution on December 12, 1787, making it the second state after Delaware. Its oldest inn on our list, the Logan Inn in New Hope, opened as the Ferry Tavern in 1727; Philadelphia’s Morris House (1786–87) and Strasburg’s Limestone Inn (1786) date from just after the Revolution. By 1809 three buildings at Bedford Springs offered lodging to visitors to its mineral springs. During the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, the Farnsworth House and the Lightner farm served as hospitals. Grand hotels rose in the cities, Philadelphia’s Bellevue-Stratford in 1904 and Pittsburgh’s William Penn, built by Henry Clay Frick, in 1916, and many later inns fill the buildings of industry and commerce: Lancaster’s tobacco warehouses and cork works, Pittsburgh’s 1902 Arrott Building and Philadelphia’s 1932 PSFS bank tower. In the Depression, Milton S. Hershey built The Hotel Hershey, which opened in 1933, to keep local tradesmen employed.

Questions travelers ask

What is the oldest hotel in Pennsylvania?

Of the inns we list, the Logan Inn in New Hope has the earliest start: the inn says its original building dates to about 1722 and that it opened as the Ferry Tavern in 1727, and it bills itself as one of America’s longest continuously running inns. The oldest buildings we list in Philadelphia and Lancaster County, the Morris House (1786–87) and The Limestone Inn in Strasburg (1786), were both built as houses. The oldest building at Omni Bedford Springs, the Stone House, dates to 1806.

What is the most haunted hotel in Pennsylvania?

There is no official ranking. Historic Hotels of America’s most-haunted lists have featured Omni Bedford Springs, The Sayre Mansion in Bethlehem and The George Washington Hotel in Washington, and HHA also relays ghost stories at Historic Hotel Bethlehem. In Gettysburg, the Farnsworth House Inn tells its own, with a room named for ‘Jeremy,’ a child spirit said to live in the house, and Visit Philadelphia’s roundup includes the Logan Inn in New Hope. These are stories guests and staff tell, not documented fact.

Where should you stay in Gettysburg?

In town, on Baltimore Street south of Lincoln Square, stay at the Farnsworth House Inn, in an 1810 house that the inn says Confederate sharpshooters used in 1863, or the Brickhouse Inn, an 1898 Victorian paired with the Civil War–era Welty House. West of the square, the Federal Pointe Inn has 22 suites in the 1896 Meade School. For a farm stay, the Lightner Farmhouse is an 1862 house on 18 acres, two miles from Gettysburg National Military Park, that served as a Union hospital in July 1863. The Gettysburg Hotel on Lincoln Square isn’t on our list: it was rebuilt after a 1983 fire.

Are there historic hotels in Pittsburgh?

Yes. Downtown, the Omni William Penn, Henry Clay Frick’s 1916 hotel, is individually listed on the National Register; Kimpton Monaco fills the 1903 James H. Reed Building, and The Industrialist the 1902 Arrott Building. On the North Side, The Priory, a hotel since 1986, was built in 1888 for Benedictine monks, and in Shadyside, Mansions on Fifth has 22 rooms in a 1906 Fifth Avenue mansion and the house next door.

Where are the best historic bed and breakfasts in Pennsylvania?

Gettysburg has the most: the Farnsworth House Inn (12 rooms, breakfast included), the Brickhouse Inn and the six-room Lightner Farmhouse, which serves a homemade breakfast. In Lancaster County, The Limestone Inn in Strasburg has six rooms in a 1786 house, and in Erie, Spencer House is an 1876 mansion on West Sixth Street. For an inn in a historic mansion, The Sayre Mansion in Bethlehem is an 1858 Gothic Revival mansion built for railroad leader Robert H. Sayre.

How we chose these inns

Every place on this page is at least 50 years old, holds a credential we can check (National Register listing, a listed historic district, landmark status, or Historic Hotels of America membership), and takes bookings today. We verify each one against primary sources before it goes on the list, and last checked this list in October 2026. Read our criteria.

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