Our History

Pratt Place Inn is located on the hilltop property that Cassius and Margaret Pratt purchased in 1900. The house, built in 1895, was at the time the only house west of the University of Arkansas. The residence and its surroundings became known as Pratt Place, a name that is reborn with the restoration and expansion of the original house into one of America's premier inns. Nearby is the English cottage Evangeline Pratt and her husband Julian Waterman built in 1929. In addition, there is a classical gambrel roof barn in the adjacent pasture. These houses and barn are situated on 140 acres, now in the heart of Fayetteville between the university and Interstate 540. Pratt Place Inn on Sassafras Hill is a unique retreat in an urban milieu which the third generation of the Pratt family is preserving.