Frommer's Review
This (you guessed it) 1896 home flooded to a foot inside (post-K) but has been so beautifully restored that you can't tell. (Ask to see the water lines on the marble fireplaces!) It's one of the most smashing B&Bs in the city, just a treasure inside, full of gorgeous antiques and repro furniture. Many of the original details, including marvelous tile on the various fireplaces in several of the rooms, are still intact. The handsome, somewhat masculine (as opposed to frilly) rooms are each meticulously decorated, using clever touches such as vintage (at least appearing) oil paintings, Bali puppets, and European art to set specific moods. Second-floor rooms are larger, and most have Jacuzzi tubs. The third floor is a clever use of design and space, with formerly dull wood walls turned most striking by pickling the wood to a lighter color (ask to see the photos of the mysterious science equations found scrawled on one wall). These rooms are smaller and more garretlike, though they pale in desirability only if you really, really want that classic high-ceilinged look. There is an expanded breakfast with eggs, waffles, hot cinnamon rolls, and other fun. Although it's located on a dull stretch of street and in a neighborhood gradually returning post-flood (though there are increasingly all kinds of newly restored Mid-City options close by), the B&B is also mere minutes from a nice section of Canal and a streetcar ride to the Quarter.
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