About the Rooms at Highlawn Inn. The beautifully appointed bedrooms and common rooms at Highlawn Inn Bed and Breakfast offer the perfect atmosphere for your romantic weekend getaway or West Virginia vacation. Elegantly clothed tables for two offer intimate dining in a spacious Victorian room that doubles as an inviting sitting room for cards, games, or a relaxing read by the fire. Breakfast finds Sandy around the corner in her kitchen luring guests with delectable aromas. Help yourself anytime to hot and cold water from the famed mineral springs, and a variety of teas and international coffees. As traditional in Victorian houses, the many are home to unique treasures. What follows is a brief overview of the rooms in our three buildings, Aunt Pearl's Building. The Bathkeeper's Quarters. If you would like to tour the rooms, click on the links. Rooms in the Main Building: Overlooks the mountain splendor of town. King-size brass bed, sitting room with daybed, private bath with shower$120. #3 Algernon, the Master's Room. One of Highlawn's most popular rooms, opens off private foyer. Spacious, south-lit sitting area, queen-size bed with high carved walnut headboard. Bath with tub, shower. Private whirlpool room with water from ye fam'd warm springs$155. #4 Spring Garden Room. King-size brass bed, clawfoot tub and shower. A feast for the eyes$98. Tucked away in the back overlooking the herb garden. Victorian Bow wallpaper, clawfoot tub and shower. White iron double bed$95. A popular room with private sitting porch and ground floor entrance overlooking sloping lawns and herb garden. Handpainted Victorian furniture in the Cottage style. Queen-size bed with high, carved headboard. Claw foot tub and shower$120. The quest for a perfect room finds a successful climax tucked away on the top floor of Highlawn's Carriage House restoration. An oversized Victorian room with a high peaked ceiling and exposed beams. it's expansive, yet intimate. whirlpool bath built for two peeks from behind antique French doors set obliquely. Stunning forest green antique pressed tin ceiling panels frame the tub and contribute to the feel of a rustic garden. An enclosed shower, pedestal sink and small refrigerator complete the glassed-in bathroom. Subtleties abound offering an endless supply of exotic memories. These are triangular windows, a. specially created stained glass pieces and a. Guests love the electronic remote that ignites a gas firestove at the foot of the. Furniture is attractive and comfortable, and a custom-crafted corner cupboard hides a color TV, VCR and selection of videos. The original cedar siding wraps the main inn's carriage house in a warm red glow. This treasure for two is affordable at $199 per night. Aunt Pearl's became home to Pearl Lawyer and her family in 1928. She lived there happily among her flowers until her death in 1987. Follow path lights down the walk from Highlawn to Aunt Pearl's, a charming cottage with four additional Victorian guest rooms. A tiny pantry in the rear is always open for serve-yourself tea, coffee and the famed Berkeley Springs mineral water. In the tradition of Highlawn, flowers are everywhere including gardens around the cottage dedicated to the memory of the historic Aunt Pearl who so loved her blossoms. Step down into a love nest worthy of the name. Private entrance and porch, dormer ceiling, heart-framed queen-size bed, and Victorian loveseat conspire to romance. Contemporary tub and shower$105. Lavender-toned sleeping room, and green-filled bath with pedestal sink and shower. Lattice-enclosed porch complete with glider offers a private entrance. Sitting area for tea, queen-size white iron and brass bed$105. Rooms #3 and #4 share Aunt Pearl's front porch with a swing overlooking one of the town's most elaborate summer cottages. Pearl's original parlor has an antebellum New Orleans flavor, original fireplace, queen-size white iron and brass bed, a table for tea, small refrigerator and VCR with movies. A romantic stained glass rose window decorates the lace-draped private whirlpool$170. Just up the stairs, with a spectacular view of Warm Springs Ridge, source of the noted mineral waters. It uses Pearl's original bath, now modernized with tub and shower. Queen-size wrought iron and brass bed. Table for tea$105. The Bathkeeper's Quarters (circa 1900): More than a century after George Washington selected the adjacent lots for his summer residence, local inventor and builder, Henry Harrison Tip Hunter built his own home on the hill above town. Hunter was a splendid character claiming to his credit duty as a Confederate spy, years as the bathkeeper at the Springs, original prospector of the town's world famous glass sand, and architect and builder of some of the finest buildings in Berkeley Springs. The best of past and present, privacy and luxurious services for one couple or two in a turn-of-the-century home, overlooking the historic warm springs and town of Bath. Quarter's guests stroll around the block for innkeeper Sandra Kauffman's celebrated gourmet breakfasts, served in the Victorian elegance of Highlawn Inn's dining room. Two bedrooms with queen-size beds, color TV. Two baths, upstairs and down: one with original clawfoot tub. Spacious whirlpool room with eight-jet tub for two. Modern kitchen with microwave. Double parlor with fireplace. Wraparound porches with rockers. Special touches highlight every corner of the historic house from the original woodwork and hardwood floors scattered with oriental rugs to an antebellum, handcrafted corner cupboard with a. Graceful staircase is highlighted with a custom-designed stained glass window. Front panel well-stocked with games, puzzles and a stereo tape player with tapestry, overstuffed couch, TV, VCR and film library with marble frontspiece and wood mantle operates with gas logs with wrapped brass bed, antique dresser and rocking chair open to whirlpool room. all blue and light set in antique marble and burnished tin ceiling tiles with handcarved walnut headboard. The Bathkeeper's Quarters is rented as a unit to one couple or two in the same party. Highlawn Inn's full, gourmet breakfasts are included. Rates are $199/night for two or $320/night for four. WV taxes are additional. Ask about special rates for longer visits. Reservations must be guaranteed by one night's advance lodging.

What the Press Say About Highlawn Inn. What will you find when you travel to Highlawn Inn for a weekend getaway? We think you'll find beautifully appointed luxury accommodations and deliciously decadent breakfasts to satisfy your senses. But don't just take our word for it; No place better! --Thomas R. Claire, Country Living. Highlawn Inn--great beds, even better breakfasts. --Southern Living, September '92. The Inn (particularly your front porch) was so enchanting it put me at complete ease while working--not an easy feat, I assure you. As for your cooking, well, let's just say I wish I could have it as good at the restaurants I eat in. --Robert Klara, Restaurant Business. In Highlawn's parlor you can idle over a cup of tea and thumb through a local history book or spend a lazy morning at breakfast. Sandra's dishes form aromatic visuals. Her feather-light biscuits, spicy country sausage, vegetable-laden omelets, and dessert cakes are deliciously abundant. Upon the antique buffet a hot pot of coffee sites. Time stops. Outside Jackie, the cat, darts off in pursuit of vanishing prey. --Outdoor Traveler, Winter 93-94. Highlawn Inn, in Berkeley Springs, WV, built by Algernon R. Unger for his bride in the late 1890s, looks down upon the town of Bath, the name given this retreat favored by our first president (mountain air, warm springs, nearby antique centers make Berkeley Springs a favorite getaway today). Private baths are charmingly coordinated to each of six comfortable and tastefully decorated rooms. A suite with a private entrance and porch is a favorite. Breakfast! Served buffet style in a sun-flooded dining room on English pub tables, abundant and freshly prepared early each morning by host Sandy, it features homemade breads and jams and dishes flavored with herbs grown in Highlawn's garden. In the parlor, where a fire burns in chilly weather, coffee and teas are made available at all hours by gracious innkeepers Tim Miller and Sandra Kauffman, who make their home feel like your own. --Seaboard, June 1990. Also worth a visit is the Highlawn Inn, a marvelous creaky 1897 Victorian with a wraparound porch and a commanding view of the town. Innkeeper Sandra Kauffman also offers catered dinners. --Tim Sayles, Mid-Atlantic County, 10/90. One of the best views in town can be captured from the Highlawn Inn, a charming Victorian bed and breakfast which provides one of the most opulent breakfasts any health seeker could hope for. Innkeeper Sandra Kauffman loves her kitchen and makes magic there with such ethereally light scrambled eggs (she wouldn't divulge her secret recipe), crisp bacon, dilled potatoes, homemade fresh croissants, fresh squeezed orange juice (she uses the orange peel to make her own coffee blend), and a potpourri of other specialties. --Arthur von Wiesenberger, In Quest of the Best, 1990. Sandra Kauffman was the first. A latter-day immigrant from Northern Virginia to Berkeley Springs, she polished an 1897 clapboard to a high luster and opened its doors as the historic Highlawn Inn. Its six guest rooms are outfitted with antiques and designer linens; the breakfast buffet gleams with sterling silver and freshly prepared foods worthy of a magazine centerfold. --Rebecca Kimmons, Sun Gazette, 4/11/91. It was undoubtedly the best night's sleep I've had in a long time, is a comment Sandra Kauffman has often heard during her nine years as an innkeeper. The six-room Victorian built in the late 1890s has more charm than it knows what to do with. Sandy and Tim do all the cooking, leading you to think they were professional gourmet chefs in their former lives. Following breakfast I was treated to a kiss from Jackey, one of the four cats that patrol the premises and see to the needs of guests who might want some fur to stroke --Erica Ohr, Women Today, Sep 94. Our choice was the Highlawn Inn, a rambling 1897 Victorian perched on a steep hillside overlooking the town. The Highlawn has all the charm one would expect, plus many amenities not often found in bbs. We went back to Highlawn to enjoy the spring water in our own private whirlpool tub. After a good night's sleep, we were treated to one of Kauffman's scrumptious breakfasts. Everyone was home-baked--even her croissants. --Mt. Airy News, Dec '95. Even the most aloof can't help but fall in love again staring into the eyes of their mate over a Victorian-style dinner at Highlawn Inn atop a steep Berkeley Springs hill. --Martinsburg Journal, 9/29/95. Highlawn Inn--an elegant, turn-of-the-century house in Berkeley Springs, Highlawn takes guests beyond simple relaxation to murder mystery weekends, Thanksgiving and Christmas getaways and wine tasting extravaganzas. Innkeeper Sandra Kauffman will also suggest nearby trips to the mineral baths, Cacapon State Park and Berkeley Castle. --Therese Cox, Charleston Daily Mail, 11/22/90. The Carriage House is a beautiful and comfortable space -- commodious is a good Victorian era word for it. I enjoyed being there, and the breakfast was superb. --Georgia Caldwell, Freelance Writer what the press say |

 Guest rooms have air conditioning
 Luggage storage
 Credit cards accepted
 Jacuzzi tub
 Smoke-free guest rooms
 Parking lot
 Private park, garden, courtyard
 Quiet surroundings
 Private/Ensuite bathroom
 Tea and coffee making facilities
 TV sets in rooms
 Patio, summer terrace