By all accounts, Hundred Mile Inn's lobby was incredibly opulent by the standards of 19th century Ohio--a result of founder Jeremiah Wolfe's eccentric creativity, his large fortune, and his genius for marketing.  Stories of the scale and grandeur of the Inn drew a great deal of traffic to his door.

No photographs survive of the original lobby, although numerous descriptions and artifacts do.   Above is our artist's rendering of what guests saw when walking in the front door in the days when Hundred Mile Inn was new.

Feel free to click on the picture to get a closer view of objects, or click on doors to access other rooms on the main floor and see some of our non-fiction features for this issue.  If you want to go to the guest rooms to see this quarter's fictional offerings, simply click the top portion of the picture.

Illustration by Leo Vasilevskiy