Visit our bed and breakfast and Lancaster County.  The Lancaster Bed and Breakfast, is an historic inn centrally located in Lancaster, PA, between it's energized downtown and the heart of Pennsylvania Amish Country. The house first served as the home to members of the Armstrong family of cork and tile fame. Armstrong’s World Headquarters still makes its home in Lancaster, PA. Built in 1912 in the Dutch Colonial style popular at the time, the house made a handsome residence for the family who occupied the home until 1986 when it first became a bed and breakfast.

Living Room
Brad and Keith are the fifth innkeepers at the Dingeldein House. Their care taking is bringing many updates to the inn’s décor, and they both are devoted to restoring the property to its stately beauty.

When you stay at the Lancaster, you should feel it is your home. Our spacious living room provides you with a warm fireplace as well as television, VCR, and DVD player. Enjoy the living room as a place to visit with each other, meet other guests, enjoy a game, read a book (if you don't have one, we have a selection to interest all tastes), and have a warm cup of coffee or tea and a sweet treat! After dinner, you may want to sit by the fire and warm yourself with a glass of port wine. Our den offers a quiet area to read a book, catch up with news from home on our guest computer, and enjoy a second fireplace.

The new cottage across the garden has two spacious bedrooms, the Nature Room and the Red Rose Room. Guests staying in the cottage can also enjoy the amenities of the main inn.

In the spring, summer, and fall enjoy our porch, goldfish pond, and gardens that are sure to bring relaxation to all.  You may want to sit by the pond or on the porch and catch up on things back home with your laptop. For the convenience of both leisure and business travelers, we have wireless Internet access.


We are Green Conscious!

Although we do not provide totally green lodging, we do many things to do our part and are always looking for more ways to help save resources and keep our environment clean:

  • Recycle #1 & #2 plastic, newspaper, metal, and glass

  • Recycle leaves and trimmings to township compost center

  • Compost organic matter on site

  • Reuse any plastic bags

  • Use cloth bags when shopping locally

  • Use vinegar to clean all glass

  • Ask our guests to reuse towels

  • Invested in energy star appliances (dishwasher, stove, low-water-use front-load clothes washer)

  • Launder in cold water

  • Hang out sheets & pillow cases, weather permitting

  • Use gray water for irrigation during growing season

  • Grow herbs and fresh flowers for use in the inn

  • Use a mulching mower

  • Use CF light bulbs

  • Outside lighting on timers and motion detection

  • Return egg cartons for reuse

  • Buy locally whenever possible to save on fuel being used in transportation of goods

  • Combine car trips

  • Unplug electrical appliances that draw energy when not in use

  • Added non-toxic ceramic powder in paint to reduce the amount of heat passing through the walls and   ceilings in the cottage rooms

  • Recycle used towels to homeless shelter and local veterinarian

  • Donate used sheets to be used in bindings for quilts to be sent overseas

  • Installed new energy efficient non-Freon central air-conditioning system in the cottage

  • Switched from oil burner to new 95% efficient gas burner for heating the inn

We are committed to learning more and using less in an effort to become as green as possible.