The inn is a three-story brick building in the
Federal architectural style. It has a total of 31 guest rooms. The building was built around 1845, and was the campus of several
women's colleges including the Greenville Institute, Daughters College and Beaumont College. Two former alumni of the college, Annie Bell Goddard and May Pettibone Hardin, purchased the building for $7,800 The restaurant originally served only two main dishes,
country ham and
fried chicken. In 1949, American food critic
Duncan Hines described it as the best restaurant in Kentucky and wrote that "I’ll be happy to get home and eat two-year-old ham,
cornbread, beaten
biscuits,
pound cake, yellow-leg fried chicken, and
corn pudding." Hines included the inn in each volume of
Adventures in Good Eating at Home. It received a
James Beard American Classic Award in 2015. == References ==