Planters Inn 
c.1828   
214 West Robert Toombs Avenue
HISTORIC WASHINGTON, GEORGIA
$450,000    

The Planters Inn, a classic 3,200+ SF Greek Revival on 1.13 acres just within Historic Washington’s downtown district, has been welcoming guests to “sit and stay awhile” since 1828. One of Washington’s earliest guest quarters, the Planters Inn originally hosted those arriving by train at the depot just around the corner, then continued its hospitality as a Bed & Breakfast/Guest Quarters with 5 Bedrooms and 4 Full Bathrooms in the decades after.

Perched just above Historic Washington’s central avenue, the Planters Inn has a wide and welcoming front porch with towering Doric columns and small second-floor balcony overlooking the sidewalks below. Colorful sidelights frame the original front door leading into a central hallway with a staircase curving into a small landing above. Formal parlors with fireplaces, original wainscotting, picture rail molding, and oversized pocket doors flank each side of the entry, one connecting to a formal dining room with fireplace and the other joining a ground-level bedroom. A compact kitchen, breakfast room, and full bath with shower and clawfoot tub stretch along the rear of the ground level, which has slightly lower ceiling heights that suggest this may be the earliest portion of the home. Another full bath is located in the hallway and the washer and dryer are tucked in a nook below the stairs behind arched doors with glass paneling.

Ascending to the upper level, the central stairway curves before resting at a small landing then forking off to the front and rear of the home. A large partially glass door at the front of the hallway allows natural light to flood in and provides access to the balcony overlooking the porches and avenue below. Similar to the ground-level, the soaring ceiling heights of the Greek Revival style can be found in the front bedrooms while the rear bedrooms feature the more modest ceiling heights of the Federal/Georgian architectural era in which the Planters Inn was originally constructed. Both large front bedrooms feature fireplaces and closets, along with doors connecting to both the hallway and rear bedrooms.

The two upper-level full bathrooms with clawfoot tubs are off of the hallway just beyond the stairwell between the rear bedrooms. The immediate grounds surrounding the Planters Inn are typical of a spacious historic in-town lot with a small well just outside of the back door. Beyond the privacy plantings at the rear of the yard, the property opens up to a pasture that runs the depth of the block and fronts the street behind it. Totaling well over an acre, there are plenty of options to expand the immediate yard for more recreation, shift the primary entrance to the rear of the property, or engage in small-scale agricultural uses.

After one renovation to the Planters Inn around 1880, the local newspaper gushed, “the large glass windows and snow white appearance of the house are quite pleasant to the eye.” Now, available after several decades of private ownership and just as impressive as ever, this unique piece of local history awaits its next chapter!
  
$450,000