About the Inn
Owners Becky and Bruce Allen named their inn after Becky's grandmother Elsa, who was born in 1897. The two-story clapboard inn is painted in authentic period colors, and its gardens are surrounded by the original picket fence. Located in Prescott's downtown historic district, the inn is just two blocks from Prescott's famous Whiskey Row and Courthouse Plaza and is four houses down from Arizona's first Methodist church, which dates back to 1886.
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Built as a parsonage in 1912, the house was expanded three times by a succession of owners. A second story was added in 1919 and the master bedroom at the back of the house in 1926. By 1979, when Bruce and Becky purchased it, the parsonage showed decades of neglect. In restoring the structure, craftsmen salvaged wood and bricks, turning old staircase flooring into kitchen cabinets and mellow old brick into garden paths.
Typical of a comfortable parsonage in the 1910s are the parlor and large dining room. A Mission-style grandfather clock graces the upstairs landing that leads to four spacious guest rooms, all furnished with Mission-style bureaus, tables, and wall-hangings. Two guest rooms face the street, two the rear garden. Guests share two bathrooms, each with a toilet, ball-foot tub, and shower.
The inn is open all year. Guest rooms are nonsmoking. Smoking is permitted only on the patio. No handicap access. Not suitable for children 10 years and under.