Garth Woodside Mansion
Bed and Breakfast

Welcome to Garth Woodside Mansion Bed and Breakfast Inn, located in "America's Hometown" of Hannibal, Missouri. You will be treated as friends while you enjoy romantic surroundings and attention to detail. You will find the mansion a place to slow down, where you can experience a time when life held more journey and less destination.

Through graceful arched doors, you'll glimpse handsomely furnished rooms with the deep colors of a country sunset. A rich walnut hue highlights woodwork detail supplied by German craftsman decades ago. Look ahead and you will capture the magnificence of the "flying staircase" as it vaults three stories high.

Your spacious bed chamber is a careful selection of fabrics, materials, and textures blended with one of the finest private nineteenth-century furniture collections in the Midwest. Nightshirts for you to wear during your stay are only one of the charming amenities offered in a timeless spirit of genuine hospitality. In such nostalgic surroundings, 21st-century troubles seem to float way.

As fresh as the morning, breakfast announces itself with the aroma of coffee brewing. Chilled juice, a hot entree, home-baked muffins, and fruit with a special lemon-laced cream sauce will delight your palate. After breakfast, you may walk the grounds, curl up with a good book, or sit on the veranda.

Woodside Restaurant is the newest addition to the Garth Mansion Estate. Fine dining is now something that not only the Garth's lodging guests can experience, but something that is offered to Hannibal residents and visitors. Built with an orangerie and a conservatory in mind, the Woodside allows our guests to enjoy the surrounding wildlife, rolling lawns, gardens, and outbuildings from their dining table.

While guests may choose not to vacation further than the grounds of this country haven, Garth Woodside Mansion is conveniently located near to all of Hannibal's attractions. Mark Twain's lovable characters Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huckleberry Finn and their life on the Mississippi River are a part of Hannibal's abundant heritage. You can enjoy Twain's boyhood home, theatres, riverboat rides, caves, and many sight-seeing tours. Nearby restaurants and shops will provide efficient and gracious hospitality.

This private Victorian estate is nestled on 33 acres of rolling meadows, tall woodlands, and flowered gardens.

"I spent many nights with John and Helen Garth in the spacious, beautiful home" Mark Twain wrote to his wife, Olivia, in 1882.

The mansion still looks much as it did when the Garth family resided at "Woodside," which was built in 1871 as a summer home for John and Helen. Now providing lodging accommodations, Garth Woodside Mansion has been placed in the National Register of Historic Places and boasts a Three-Diamond rating from AAA and a Three-Star rating from Mobil.

Your visit to Hannibal will be a memorable one filled with memories of Mark Twain, The Great River Road, lakes, and history - all yours to discover.

Five Stars One of the Midwest's 10 best country inns." ...Chicago Sun Times You will find Garth Mansion not just a night's lodging, but an experience where days move gently, in all seasons or according to Glamour Magazine, " Our choice for that special getaway."