An invitation to turn back time... in California's Gold Country at the award winning Nevada City Bed and Breakfast Red Castle Inn Historic Lodgings ...the only authentically preserved historic lodging landmark mansion in Nevada City.
As the first Nevada City Bed and Breakfast... and one of the first in California... the incomparable Red Castle Inn has been acclaimed for its singular sense of time and place for more than six decades. On a quiet tree lined street in an uncommon wooded setting with unsurpassed views of the enchanting historic Gold Rush town, this Nevada City inn offers travelers a glimpse of what life was like more than one hundred fifty years ago. Cross the threshold of the spectacular 1860 Gothic Revival mansion—which became in 1960 the premier Nevada City Bed and Breakfast—into another time... another century... an atmosphere of vintage refinement at once tranquil, romantic, genteel. Discover what was called "The Tasteful Interlude" ...in true 19th century style.
The grand four-story brick mansion, overlooking the historic Gold Rush community from atop forested Prospect Hill, was completed in 1860, before the Civil War began. Built for one of the city's founding families, a California State Historic Landmark, the Williams family home is the only one of its kind in this part of the state.
A prominent feature of Nevada City for more than a century, the "castle" was named by the townspeople as it was being built high upon Prospect Hill. Its Gothic Revival architecture was as rare in California as were four story brick homes in Nevada City. The imposing Pre-Civil War landmark was rescued from the ravages of time in 1960 to become one of the first Historic Bed and Breakfast lodgings in California, an exact restoration that has been recognized by The Smithsonian. Today, your hosts Conley and Mary Louise Weaver, resident innkeepers for twenty five years, invite you to "dwell in the past" at the Red Castle, where you will make magical memories of your own.
