Bryn Rose Inn was built in 1925 on the edge of Confederate battle lines by Isaac Cecil Knox, a prominent Vicksburg physician. Originally a fifty acre estate, it extended east to All Saints School and south to what is currently Interstate 20. Formerly part of the Vicksburg National Military Park, the property adjacent to Confederate Avenue is owned by the city and protected from development. As you drive along Confederate Avenue you will notice the busts of Confederate officers who defended the outskirts of Vicksburg from the approaching Union Army.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as one of the finest examples of Tudor architecture in Mississippi, the home was designed by Memphis architect J. Frazier Smith who authored one of the foremost books on Southern architecture, Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South.
In 1999 Kilby and Cliff Whitney bought the home and turned it into a bed and breakfast inn in 2007. This is Kilby and Cliff’s second inn, having owned and managed another bed and breakfast for ten years. The Whitneys love all aspects of innkeeping - cooking, gardening, photography, historic renovation, Civil War and English history and most of all - meeting their guests from all over the world.