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The year 2011 marks the 100th Anniversary of the house at 270 Montgomery Ave, restored and in use as the "ca 1911 Montgomery Inn BnB" bed and breakfast inn located in Versailles, KY. Built as a single family home and bride's gift to Henrietta Jackson Krabill on her wedding day. Three generations of Krabills occupied the home until it was sold in 1988. Renovated, restored and furnished the Inn with antiques and period reproductions, additions included a wing of four jacuzzi suites, a third floor now housing the innkeeper's quarters, and additions housing the Lobby/Library and Club Car Dining Room. Now 20 plus years later many things remain the same while others have been updated. An example of this would be the decor of the Club Car Dining Room, re-decorated in 2010 to offer the feel of a 1911 dining car or Pullman experience which was so popular at the turn of the century.

Horses dominate the theme throughout the community spaces of the Inn and in many of the guest quarters as well. Versailles,Kentucky known as the "Horse Capital of the World" is the pivot point of Woodford County sporting approximately 500 horse farms, many world renown for their thoroughbred racing champions and breeding industry. The palette of the Inn reflects the beauty of the area along with some of the hues of the key components that draw people in to enjoy it. The amber and russet warmth of the Club Car Dining Room share a remembrance of the qualities of the world famous bourbon of the region, Woodford Reserve, Buffalo Trace, Four Roses and Wild Turkey being the closest in proximity to the Inn, but less than an hour from Makers Mark, Heaven Hill and several others. The rich wines and blush colors mirror the hues of the resurgent wine industry growing annual and at the time of this writing approximately twenty vineyards and tasting rooms being open to the public. Kentucky was the home of the original vineyards supplying the United States with wine. Those fields were converted to hemp, then to tobacco and are now returning to their original intended crop of wine grapes.

The ca 1911 Montgomery Inn BnB acquired its new name from the birth-date of the original home and for its location on Montgomery Avenue to help describe it more fully and direct people more easily to the website which uses the "BnB" reference to bed and breakfast, its current usage. The original innkeepers opened it as the Sills Inn after their family name. The next innkeepers changed the name to "Falling Springs Inn" referring to the original name of Versailles when it was founded back in 1792 when it was officially named to honor General Lafayette.

The ca 1911 Montgomery Inn BnB has been home to several generations, temporary home to thousands of guests from international dignitaries to local politicians, foreign guests visiting the United States for the first time to business people from other continents, horse enthusiasts, bourbon and wine connoisseurs, doctors, lawyers, plumbers, electricians, college students and retirees, friends, family and neighbors with a nostalgic reflection of early 1900's Kentucky life.