ID: 10102969
GRAPE ARBOR B&B...BESTER TOWN HOUSE
North East, Pennsylvania, United States
The Grape Arbor Bed and Breakfast consists of two side by side mansions: the Bester Town Home (circa 1832) and the Hampson Home (circa 1835). The Bester House once served as a stagecoach tavern, a boarding house, a doctor's residence, North East's first kindergarten, and a home for the elderly and a restaurant. Although not officially documented, this house is said to have been used as a temporary station on the underground railroad during the Civil War, to mention a few of its earlier incarn...