Victorian Inn Bed & Breakfast in Rock Island, Rock Island County, United States | Bed and Breakfast

Lights from the stained glass tower beckon the traveler to the Victorian Inn Bed & Breakfast in Rock Island, Illinois United States. Beveled plate glass French doors open from the spacious living room. You are invited to a full breakfast served on fine china and linen with sterling silver and crystal. The dining room with it's Flemish Oak ceiling beams and paneling is crowned by turn of the century Belgium tapestries. Your breakfast experience is upscale, yet very comfortable. One guest from California commented, ?How very civilized."

The 20 room Victorian Inn was built in 1876. Then enlarged and modernized in 1905 by a Rock Island liquor baron who gave it as a wedding present to his daughter. Two of the six guest rooms have working fireplaces and all have private baths. In total the Inn has 7 fireplaces and 9 baths. There is 3,000 square feet on each floor of the 3 story Victorian Inn Bed & Breakfast in Rock Island, Illinois.

The various rooms offer beds of king, queen, full and twin sizes. Four poster Jenny Lind spool and canopy beds are complimented by 1900?s cranberry glass ceiling light fixture and 1880?s armoire. A chesser, a half dresser-half chest, was originally used in the chauffeur?s quarters. Mother never threw anything away. When we needed an item for one of the rooms, we just looked in the attic and there it was.

Purchased by the Parker family in 1944, this is our family home. Original antiques from the family and previous owners of the home adorn the rooms. The inn is a Local Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Three other structures within sight are on National Register. We are located in the Broadway Historic District here in the heart of Old Rock Island. The Victorian Inn is at a major entrance to the 900 homes that comprise Broadway. Other than Williamsburg. Va., Broadway is the largest Historic District in the United States. Our historic walking tours will guide you past a home that was originally a stage coach stop. As well as homes of oil barons, beer barons, lumber barons, railroad tycoons, and the early 1900?s gangster that gave Rock Island notoriety as, ?Little Chicago?.