Owned by Daniel and Monica Edwards, the Morehead Manor Bed and Breakfast opened to the public back in 1997. Since then it has been a staple of African American excellence in hospitality.
Located in Durham, North Carolina, the splendidly redecorated, 8,000 square-foot, Colonial Revival Style home is located within walking distance to the Downtown area. The property has four spacious guestrooms each with a private bath.
“We are going into our 17th year. I’ve seen lots of changes and I’ve embraced them. I enjoy what I do, its a labor of love and I tell everybody if I didn’t enjoy it I wouldn’t be doing it this long.”
“I can honestly say my first experience at a bed and breakfast was in 1995 and I fell in love with it and said to myself this a very good concept. And over the next year and a half every time my husband and I traveled we stayed at a B&B and talked to people there. Remember at that time there was very limited information about B&B’s unlike hotels that have a lot of money to spend on advertising, most B&B’s have a very limited budget.”
Henderson House Bed and Breakfast
Located in Columbus, Ohio and owned by former model Lee Henderson Johnson, this lovely five-acre property used to belong to former Ohio Governor and United States president Rutherford. B. Hayes
.The Henderson House B & B is a restored farm house tucked away close to downtown Columbus. It is the first African American-owned bed and breakfast in the state of Ohio.
The historical house which has belonged to the Henderson family for generations opened as a bed and breakfast in 1994. Their first guests were the ensemble cast of the hit opera, “The Phantom of the Opera.”
Owned by Merrill “Mell” and Angie Monroe.
Rated No. 3 out of 25 bed and breakfasts in Chicago by Tripadvisor, this property was built in 1893 and is a seven-room Queen Anne historic home.
The Monroes purchased the property eight years ago and turned it into a bed and breakfast in 2011.
You have to have an honest and sincere interest in people and a high tolerance for service, Mell Monroe says. Be comfortable cooking because you’re going to be cooking everyday as long as you have guests. It’s important to have a compassion and empathy for people who are unlike yourself, ethnically or culturally or with respect to their religion.