Hill Top House Hotel
Harpers Ferry, United States
The Hill Top House Hotel is located in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The original hotel was built in 1888 and operated by Thomas S. Lovett, an African-American graduate of Harpers Ferry's Storer College. The hotel, the college, John Brown's Fort, and the Island Park Resort and Amusement Park combined to make Harpers Ferry a center of African-American tourism and a frequent excursion from Baltimore and Washington, D.C. With two structures lost to fire, but insured and rebuilt, the hotel operated until 2007, when it had deteriorated beyond reasonable repair. The rebuilding and reopening of the hotel, on a more luxurious scale, became a local issue.
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