Bed and Breakfasts, Inns, Hotels, and Lodging in Chrisman, Illinois:

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In 1840, the land upon which Old Brick Inn sits was part of the original land grant of Abraham Smith. Before he left for Oregon in the 1850's, he sold the land to John Chrisman. This home was built, by Elisha W. Hartley, between 1886 and 1889 for his wife, Mamie Chrisman, great niece of the town's founding father, Mathias Chrisman.. . .