Gertrude Hunt Bed-and-Breakfast

Gertrude Hunt Bed-and-Breakfast is an Inn located in Red Deer, Texas, that is owned by Dina Demille. It is one of the primary locations that the Innkeeper Chronicles are set in and serves as neutral ground and sanctuary for magical creatures of all kinds.

Description
Gertrude Hunt Bed-and-Breakfast sits directly at the entrance of the Avalon Subdivision. It takes three acres of land, with a majority of the property dedicated to the apple orchard and garden. The house is shaded by several large oak trees and has a four foot hedge running along the side of the lawn that faces the street.

The inn was originally built in the late 1880s and constructed from fish-scale wood siding, but due to deterioration from age, the siding was replaced with a more practical and modern version that is coloured deep hunter green.

The three-story house is said to be  covered with excessively elaborate spindle-work. It also boasts American Queen Anne style features, including short Corinthian columns that mark the entrance to a deep wrap around porch, seemingly randomly located oriel and bay windows, three small balconies composed of stone located on the second story, and overhanging eaves. Similar to older Victorian houses, the inn was designed to be asymmetric, and can be seen as an entirely different building when viewed from the north side and then the south. The eastern wall of the inn encompasses a small tower; the western side, a rounded, protruding sunroom.

Past the threshold, a picture of Dina's Parents, Gerald and Helen Demille, hangs stoically in the front room. Beyond that, towards the left, a spacious staircase leads to the second floor and eventually the north balcony. On an unknown story, a long hallway leads to Dina's bedroom and the western balcony, which overlooks the apple orchard.

Trivia

 * It has been described as if "a medieval castle and a Southern-belle, antebellum mansion had a baby and it had been delivered into the world by a gothic wedding-cake decorator."