This elegant Queen Anne Victorian home is located in the East Main Street-Glen Miller Park Historic and has been lovingly restored to its original grandeur. Built in 1890 by Philip W. Smith, the 2 1/2 story brick has Romanesque details and features stained glass windows and ornate carved wood. Mr. Smith owned five lumber mills in the Midwest and chose the best when completing the details of his home. Philip W. Smith was a progressive and esteemed citizen of Wayne County and Richmond. He held stock and was director of several banks and businesses, in addition to his lumber interests. Philip and his wife, Catherine, had two children: son, C. Erman Smith, who attended Earlham College and daughter, Florence Catherine, who married Rudolph Gaar Leeds, proprietor of the Richmond Palladium and the Indianapolis Sun. During your stay at Philip W. Smith Bed & Breakfast, Innkeepers and owners, Kris and Jill Nelson will extend gracious hospitality. Every effort will be made to accommodate special requests, while you relax in the warmth of their Victorian Family Home.

ictures of our trees will have to be forth coming when they start to bud in a couple of months. "Next door to the Philip W. Smith B & B, stands an 1880 Eastlake house. Originally built by world renowned rosarian E.G. Hill, the Smiths and Hills were neighbors and friends. In 1895, Mr. Hill , known the world over for his rose hybrids, sent the Emperor of Japan some of his prize winning rose bushes. Not to be outdone, the Emperor reciprocated by sending two gingkos to every home on the 2000 block of East Main. Philip W. Smith B & B is accentuated by these massive and unique trees, two of seven which still exist on the block today."