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Hilo, Hawaii (HI) Bed & Breakfast: All five guest bedrooms are large, with 10 to 12 ft. ceilings, private baths, small refrigerators, cotton kimonos, heirloom furnishings, hand-woven lauhala mats, fans and fresh flowers. A stunning victorian home on 5 acres of historic gardens and lush rainforest. Large, beautifully appointed rooms take you back to an idyllic era, when royalty and famous visitors called. Continental breakfast on the lanai includes exotic home-grown fruits and local coffee.

Shipman House Bed & Breakfast Inn


Hilo, Hawaii

'Hilo's most impressive inn.' --New York Times '...old Hawaii at its simple, yet gracious, best.' --Sunset Magazine

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Introduction

Shipman House is the perfect inn for guests who love the history, gardens and comfortable living of Old Hawaii. As Hilo's best accommodation, Shipman House offers the gracious, unpretentious hospitality of a fifth generation Island family in a home listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Shipman House Bed & Breakfast Inn - Hilo, Hawaii

At Shipman House guests are invited to:
  • Sleep where Jack London slept
  • Bathe in oversized tubs
  • Play the same piano Hawaii's last queen, Lili`uokalani, played
  • Walk on honey-colored, old growth fir floors beneath 12-foot ceilings
  • Read the travel books of a century ago
  • Gaze through curved windows of hand-rolled glass
  • Relax among furnishings of Hawaii's monarchy era
  • Taste tropical fruits, backyard-fresh
Shipman House Details:
  • The mansion is listed on both the State of Hawaii and National Registers
  • 5 Bedrooms, each with private bath
  • Open all year
  • No Smoking
  • No Pets

Library In 1993, the Shipmans' great-granddaughter and her husband returned to Hilo to purchase and renovate the family home. They continue the tradition of old Hawaiian hospitality as they open their historic home and guesthouse to bed and breakfast guests. Barbara and Gary love this side of the island, and enthusiastically share its beauty, history, special nooks and crannies with any and all newcomers.

Let your host share memories and family anecdotes with you during the Grand Tour of the mansion and the gardens. Barbara and her sister spent a part of every summer with their great-aunts at the house, weeding the cutting garden, riding wheelbarrows down rolling green lawns, arranging flowers, making plum jam, bathing in claw-foot tubs, and sleeping in four-poster beds.

Welcome to the Shipman House, home of one of Hilo's most influential families of the past century. Built in 1899 on Reed's Island, on the lush green side of Hawaii Island, it is one of the state's few remaining Victorian mansions.

Hilo's most photographed residence, the recently renovated "castle" sits high on a
ridge overlooking a deep gulch lined with magnificent stands of palms, bamboo and ferns.

Special Packages

Thanks for Protecting Us
Special discount for all active military, police and fire personnel.......(more)

Floral Fantasy
Fresh flower lei greeting for two, orchids to float atop your bath, and.......(more)

Our Hula Heritage
Make an authentic hula skirt, string a flower lei, and learn a hula.......(more)

Sweethearts' Lei
In Hawaii, we give lei in place of corsages on special occasions. Let us do the footwork for you.......(more)

Much of the original furniture remains in the house, which includes a double parlor, library, dining room, conservatory, billiard room, and a second floor ballroom (now guestrooms). In the afternoon, guests may enjoy cold lemonade on the lanai overlooking Hilo Bay, just as the Shipman family did. The library is also available, as is the 1912 Steinway concert grand piano.

A glorious celebration of Island foods is served outside on the lanai. A typical continental buffet may include macadamia nut granola, assorted local fruits in season (there are 20 varieties of fruit trees on the property), fruit juices, Kona coffee, special breads or muffins. The Shipman House staff tries to accommodate special diets (with sufficient notice).

Explore the grounds, hear the waterfall. The Shipmans were avid plant collectors, and the 5.5 acre grounds are planted with a wide variety of palms, ferns, and other tropicals, including the Shipman Pink anthurium.

Front Hall

Shipman House Bed & Breakfast Inn is a member of the following associations:
   Conde Nast Johansens
   Hawaii Island Bed & Breakfast Association

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Shipman House Bed & Breakfast Inn
 131 Ka`iulani Street
Hilo, Hawaii   96720
 Fax: (808) 934-8002
email:
Barbara & Gary Andersen, Innkeepers

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www.hilo-hawaii.com

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