Welcome to the Southern Hotel
Now All rooms have clawfoot TUB/SHOWER combo, EXCEPT BUTTONS and BOWS & GENTLEMENS ROOM, the CAPTAINS is a step-in shower
There are nine spacious bedrooms, five on the 2nd floor & four on the 3rd floor
The Wonderful Tubs
Each of our nine bedrooms has its own bath. Eight with a ball and claw foot bathtub, pedestal sinks
w/brass fixtures and toilets. These tubs seem appropriate to encourage our
guests to step away from their usual routines of life.
A relaxing soak with a good book or good company is just the thing for
our stressful lives.
Dolly DuFour, a local artist, has masterfully painted the exterior of
each tub to complement the theme of the rooms. The themes were chosen
based on our extensive collection of antiques and a desire to offer
something a little special in each bedroom.
Buttons&Bows 2nd Floor
This is the most perfect lover's retreat you'll find. The walls are
decorated with hand painted fleur-de-lis on a peach background.
A 1775 rosewood half-tester FULL SIZE BED as old as the Southern covered with pure
white linens wows... until you notice those claw foot tubs. The pair
faces each other, allowing you to gaze at your true love as you soak in billowy bubbles
(compliments of the Southern.) NO SHOWER. Open bathroom W/privacy screen toilet & sink.
It's a perfect way to celebrate an anniversary...or just to remember
how very much you love your mate.
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DVD NO TV.
$170
per night plus fees & taxes.
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Cabbage Rose 2nd Floor
This is the most 'Victorian' of our rooms, so named because of the
eras passion for the overblown, multi-petaled, most fragrant rose of
them all. We chose simple walnut furniture (Civil War era) for the
room as befits a country dwelling. The BED is a QUEEN.
However, the real star of the room is the fan collection over the
fireplace. Fans did a lot more than stir the air during the Victorian
era. By the 17th century, Paris was the undisputed hub of the fan
making industry.
Gentlemen's Room
But it took the Victorians to make the fan into an
object of communication. Enclosed bathroom has clawfoot TUB/SHOWER combo, toilet & sink.
$155
per night plus fees & taxes.
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The subdued colors, somewhat of an English feel and of course, our
gentlemen's portraits inspired the name.
The claw foot tub was painted by Dolly and resembles an English garden.
The pencil post reproduction KING SIZE BED is adorned in part with
vintage linens. The headpiece is an Irish linen bedcover with three
dimensional Irish crochet inserts. What luxury it must have been to
sleep on and under linen bed-cloths. NO SHOWER. Open bathroom W/privacy screen toilet & sink.
$155
per night plus fees & taxes.
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Japonisme Room 2nd Floor
Japonisme was a word coined by the Victorians to describe a room
decorated with Orientalia. During the 1880s
it began to appear in the United States and Victorians, with their
usual passion for excess, collected it, the
bronze ceremonial pots are Chinese in origin and date between 1820
and 1850.
The FULL SIZE BED is a one of a kind, as I designed it. The headpiece is composed
of metal rings, each one made by a different blacksmith and
demonstrating his particular area of expertise with metal. The one of a
kind rings were made by the Missouri Blacksmith Association in 1986.
Our local blacksmith, Stan Winkler, was kind enough to make the bed and
put it all together and turn it into an important part of our decor. Enclosed bathroom has clawfoot TUB/SHOWER combo,
toilet & sink.
$155
per night plus fees & taxes.
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Captain's Room 2nd Floor
This 2nd floor room has a private balcony overlooking its own garden.
The Captains has a one-of-a-kind queen size 4 poster bed recycled from an 1870's home.
Three tables, a bookcase, a wicker table and two wicker chair completes the room.
The enclosed bath has a step-in shower, pedestal sink & toilet, NO tub.
The covered balcony has two wicker chairs with cushions & a wicker table.
$155
per night plus fees & taxes.
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For someone traveling with children over the age of 15 or another couple, or an extra person
We now offer the Captains as a suite with 2 bedrooms and the shared bath
The second bedroom is the Shell Room, it has an antique iron bed, dresser and wicker rocker.
Call if you need both rooms 573-883-3493.
$250
per night plus fees & taxes.
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Some of our most dear and precious reminders are on the third floor rooms
Grandma Rachel's hand pieced quilts, children's roll top desks, 200 year old beds, old trunks,
and many treasures brought to us through the years.
Prices may vary due to special events.
There are four bedrooms on the third floor. Each bedroom has its own bath with a ball and claw foot bathtub W/shower combo, Open bathroom W/privacy screen pedestal sinks w/brass fixtures and toilets. These tubs seem appropriate to encourage our guests to step away from their usual routines of life. The themes were chosen based on our extensive collection of antiques and a desire to offer something a little special in each bedroom. A relaxing soak with a good book or good company is just the thing for our stressful lives.
The Wysocki Room 3rd Floor
Charles Wysocki is an American folk artist whose work we began
collecting in the 70's. All of his work is very distinctive and
contains a hidden element of humor and has always made me smile. Can
you find the fox in Fox Run? That's the print hanging over the chest
of drawers that has been decoupaged with scenes from the calenders
Wysocki did.
The headboard of the bed Barbara did, with scraps left over from the
building of the kitchen cupboards. This was a work of love as it took
over three months to complete the three demensional piece. I suppose it
personifies the sampler hanging above the double chair ("Use it up,
Wear it out, Make it do, Do without"). A footboard was planned in the
same three dimensional style, but a trunk was used instead. This
has a QUEEN SIZE BED.
The folk art makes this a cozy room, at its best on a crisp fall
afternoon when it is flooded with reflected reds and golds from the
sugar maple next door, leaves all ablaze. Open bathroom W/privacy screen has clawfoot TUB/SHOWER combo,
toilet & sink. $135
per night plus fees & taxes.
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Lullabelle's Room 3rd Floor
Barbara thought it only fitting that Lulabelle, her doll and one of
the few things to survive her childhood, deserved a special room
named after her surrounded by the dolls dresser, Murphy bed, and her
clothes trunk nearby
The rolltop desks also belonged to Barbara and her sister Sharon. Many
happy hours were spent playing school and store by our children as
well as the two sisters and still bear the marks of our children at
play.
The FULL SIZE BED in this room is the highest off the floor and was originally a
rope bed. It is also probably one of the oldest in the hotel (circa
1770's very-very high off the floor). Dolly painted an angelic scene on the headboard as a sweet
surprise when the bed is turned down. Open bathroom W/privacy screen has clawfoot TUB/SHOWER combo,
toilet & sink.$135
per night plus fees & taxes.
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Paul's Purple Room 3rd Floor
A very dear friend, named Paul of course, volunteered many hours here
and this room was referred to as his room (a very long story).
The FULL SIZE brass bed,175 years old bought at a junk store, took
four weeks to polish the first time. Kathy, another close friend, and
Barbara used Porter's Friend and enough steel wool to take off their
fingerprints. It turned out beautifully and the man in the junk store
never learned what happened to the $4 bed now worth $1400.
Among Dolly's favorite things are birds nests and violets, this was the
room to indulge both passions on the tub. Barbara stenciled the border
at the ceiling, under the ceiling fan and the walls behind the tub.
Dolly has painted the wonderful "Violet Seller" one of several "silent
people" she has done for the Southern. Open bathroom W/privacy screen has clawfoot TUB/SHOWER combo,
toilet & sink
$135
per night plus fees & taxes.
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The Quilt Room 3rd Floor
Great grandmother Rachel was always there, making a pie by feel or
reaching for a scrap to piece up a quilt. Many of the quilts
displayed and used in this room are hers, stitched by hand and
quilted at the church on Wednesdays. This is a warm and cozy room
which contains some of our favorite things, all with a story.
The $5 pie safe that took all the summer of 1967 to restore, the crazy
quilt of wools, dated 1886-1887, given to us by a dear friend, and the
armadillo which holds the contents of Grandma Beulah's sewing basket.
Beulah preferred crochet, bingo and driving in second gear, but I
remember the sewing basket.
The FULL SIZE 200 year old bed, (which is the highest off the floor) a four poster cannonball (exactly like the one in Lincoln's
bedroom in Springfield, Illinois), was purchased in Sedalia, Missouri.
We were traveling in our little Ford Escort wagon and Mike said I could
buy it if I could get it in the car. You see it, don't you?
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The new and old, all precious and comfortable here for you to enjoy.
Our research seems to show that this was always a place of happiness
and good living, we hope you find it so.
There are many stories, for each and every room, too many to relate
here. Just ask when you come to the SOUTHERN HOTEL, we're proud of this
project and always pleased to talk about it.
Thanks to you, our guests, and to all the family members, friends and
experts who made it possible, we're continuing to change and grow every day.
Prices may vary due to special events.
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146 South Third Street
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri 63670
(573) 883-3493
Innkeepers: Mike & Cathy
www.southernhotelbb.com
Email:
mike@southernhotelbb.com
