Location(s)

Springfield House

Bed and Breakfast

126 East Main Street, Boalsburg, PA 16827

888-STAY-N-PA (782-9672)

Full breakfast served to order 7 days a week from 6:30 AM to 8:30AM weekdays and 8AM to 10AM weekends, early risers can arrange for a “to-go” breakfast snack. Continental Breakfast available for late risers. “Heart Healthy” breakfasts available on request.

Ammenities: 24 Hour beverage and snack availability, wireless broadband Internet access. Televisions, individually controlled heat, A/C, 24 hour security access, on-site parking, outdoor barbecue facilities available by reservation.

History:

The eastern part of today's Boalsburg proper was the site of a town plan filed in 1908 by Andrew Shoup and named Springfield because of a large spring at its east end. He sold quarter acre lots at a top price of $11 from this tract. When a Post Office was officially established in 1820, the question of a name divided the community. Use of Springfield lingered on, but the town officially became Boalsburg in honor of David Boal, a leading citizen.

Deeds to lot #9 on the 1809 plan of Andrew Shoup, sold by lottery to John Barr, give evidence that a house was constructed on it between 1824 and 1833, when it became the property of Michael Eilert. Dr. L.E. Kidder, who bought the house in 1898, used the large front room on the left for his medical practice for over 40 years. He sold it to the Ernest Hess family, who owned it until 1965.

Woodwork in several different styles and photos of the house in 1903 indicate additions through the years from 1833 to 1903.

The right front room is the early house, with log walls still existing under interior plaster and exterior clear pine siding. The original house was entered through the wide former exterior door, which has its original hardware.

The original cedar roof over purlins is still intact, but was covered with the current metal roof in 1924 and calls attention to the 5 distinctive perpendicular offset peaks of the roofline.

A "good morning" staircase - steps leading from different sections of the second floor, meeting at a landing, is a distinctive feature of this large frame house.

The home was converted to a bed and breakfast by Dr Reid Allison in 1989 and has operated as such since.

A major renovation by Bill and Cheryl Speakman in 2005 returned the interior of the home to it's nineteenth century roots, while adding modern luxury amenities to the four guest suites in the main house and the two in the adjoining carriage house. The interior and extertior finishes, and particularly the distinctive wrap around front porch, remain much as they were in the late 1800s.

Please visit our website for more detailed information:

http://www.springhousebb.com

Email to: innkeeper@springfieldhousebb.com