Victorian Mansion B&B with Reported Apparitions
633 Upland Rd, Cambridge, OH 43725
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$$
Overnight rates vary by room; check the venue website for current pricing.
Access
Limited Access
Multi-story Victorian mansion with stairs
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1878 · Victorian Architecture · National Register of Historic Places · Civil War Era
The mansion known locally as the House on the Hill was completed in 1878 for Joseph D. Taylor, a figure whose career encompassed nearly every civic role available to a 19th-century Ohio man of standing. Taylor served as a Civil War officer, attended the bar, taught school, owned a Cambridge newspaper, sat on the board of a local bank, and represented Ohio in the United States Congress.
The residence reflects that résumé. Three full stories of Victorian brickwork rise above Upland Road, organized around 21 rooms, six bathrooms, and 11 fireplaces. The footprint totals roughly 9,000 square feet. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
After generations of private ownership, the mansion was converted into a small bed and breakfast. Today the inn offers four guest rooms named for flowers — Iris, Rose, Lilac, and Magnolia — and welcomes visitors traveling I-77 between Cleveland and the Ohio River. The current owners have leaned into the building's reputation for residual phenomena, though the operation remains, at its core, a working country inn rather than an attraction.
Sources
The reports collected at the Colonel Taylor Inn are domestic in scale. There are no violent histories attached to the house, no famous tragedies, no on-site deaths that local sources have documented. What guests describe instead is a sense of cohabitation.
The most frequently mentioned phenomenon is olfactory: the aroma of pipe tobacco drifting through hallways of a building that has been non-smoking for decades. Colonel Taylor smoked a pipe. The detail does not appear in the inn's check-in materials.
Guests have also reported footsteps ascending the central staircase when no one is on the stairs, indistinct voices including those of children, and beds that gently rock. A cold sensation is sometimes described as accompanying the activity. Innkeepers have referenced a tabby cat named Samantha — a former pet of the owners — said to pad along the third floor.
The presences are not framed as malevolent. Both ohiohauntedhouses.com and nights-in-the-past travel coverage describe the reported entities as protective or watchful, more attuned to the rhythms of a working inn than disruptive of them.
Notable Entities
Book one of four uniquely furnished guest rooms (Iris, Rose, Lilac, Magnolia) in this 9,000 square foot 1878 Victorian mansion. Guests have reported the aroma of pipe tobacco drifting through the non-smoking inn and footsteps on the central stairway, attributed by the innkeepers to Colonel Taylor.
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