COLQUITT, GA -- When driving through Colquitt, it is hard to miss the pink hotel on the corner. The Tarrer Inn is a touch of southern hospitality located right in the heart of the city.
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Originally a boarding house, the inn was bought by the city and became a non-profit owned by the downtown development authority who restored the inn in 1994. As for the color, there is no special meaning behind the pink. It is simply what was picked by the redesigned.
Each room has a unique hand painted fireplace and an antique fan, a reminder of times before air conditioning. The inn has been since upgraded with modern conveniences and each bathroom has a rubber duck so guests do not get homesick. Ghost hunters even found one guest that does not want to leave.
"We don't know what room she inhabits,” said Eric Mikkelson, executive innkeeper. “They said that little antique chess board over there, they rearranged the little pieces and after three hours of searching upstairs from midnight to three or four in the morning the pieces had been moved again.”
The Tarrer Inn stays filled nearly year round and is a great place to stay when the nationally known production Swamp Gravy comes to the theater just down the street.
“With Swamp Gravy, which was invented in ‘94 so you can see the connection, they bring in thousands of people,” said Mikkelson.
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