The Hill House Bed and Breakfast, a three-story Victorian townhouse built around 1870, is located in the heart of Frederick's historic district of Maryland.

The home's original facade features Eastlake detailing, and the home's interior emanates an historical ambience reflected by period furniture, framed Civil War documents, and original drawings, paintings, and crafts from the private collection of innkeepers Damian and Taylor Branson.

This quaint Victorian includes three rooms, each with a private, ceramic-tiled bathroom, as well as a deluxe suite that includes a sitting room, bedroom, kitchen, and ceramic-tiled bathroom.

Each room carries its own motif. The Victorian Room includes a queen-sized canopied bed and features a chair that belonged to Damian's mother as a child and a china doll that belonged to Damian herself. The Chesapeake Room, also with a queen-sized bed, is colorfully decorated in a floral chintz with tiger maple furniture and features original paintings of the Chesapeake Bay region. The room opens into a furnished, second-floor gallery that overlooks the garden.

The Mexican Room features twin beds, beautiful artwork, hand-painted furniture, and a uniquely appointed bath. It too opens into the second-floor gallery. The Steeple Suite provides the most scenic view, though. It overlooks the famous Spire of Frederick and effects a genteel look with colonial-style furniture and a queen-sized canopy bed. Also available is a third-floor apartment with queen bedroom, full kitchen, sitting room, and bath for long-term rentals.

Damian, an experienced gourmet cook, serves up a scrumptious breakfast of homemade biscuits, sausage, country ham, bacon, french toast, grits, and home fries, along with such seasonal delicacies as fried apples and green tomatoes. The menu changes routinely, and to that end, Damian invites guests to make special requests.

After breakfast, take a stroll in nearby Baker Park. Also within walking distance is a collection of antique shops and fine restaurants, as well as several venues for live theater. Other nearby points of interest include Hood College, the Civil War Medical Museum, the Visitor's Center, the Historical Society of Frederick, and the Delaplaine Visual Arts Center. The Grapevine and Edward & Edward Blue Elephant Gallery beckon as well; and for those who don't mind hopping in the car, Camden Yards, home of Major League Baseball's Orioles, is just down the road in Baltimore.

Damian and Taylor look forward to offering you "Hospitality in our Maryland family tradition" at Hill House Bed and Breakfast.