The Old Rooming House is an Italianate Victorian
house built in 1896. While originally a family home, it was established
as a boarding
house in 1949 by Mary Rickens, who charged $3 a week and expected
her boarders to be neat, clean and polite. Mary ran her
business for over 35 years, then passed it on to Jim Stinson, the
current proprietor. Jim remodeled the house, adding extra bathrooms
and revarnishing the hardwood floors. Since then he's continued
to add to the house's impressive collection of vintage travel
memorabilia, antique furniture, and much-loved books. The Old Rooming
House continues to evolve, but preserves the best of the old
days with an atmosphere of easy comfort and magic discovery.