The Baillie

The Baillie is converting Capitol Hill's century-old Shafer Baillie Mansion — a bed and breakfast for nearly 50 years until it closed at the end of 2025 — into a 10-room boutique hotel and restaurant, under new owners Harry's Good Times Co. The team behind Harry's Fine Foods and Harry's Beach House is targeting a summer 2027 opening, preserving the mansion's original woodwork and third-floor ballroom.

The place

907 14th Avenue East, on Capitol Hill's 'Millionaire's Row,' one block from Volunteer Park.

The concept

The Baillie occupies a Tudor Revival mansion built around 1913-1914 for brewing executive Samuel Loeb, later home to Scottish immigrant Alexander Baillie — credited with introducing golf to the western United States — and then to the Shafer family, whose ballroom and pipe organ still occupy the third floor. The building operated as a rooming house from 1952, then as the Shafer Baillie Mansion Bed & Breakfast from 1979 until its closure on December 31, 2025, run by owners Mark Mayhle and Ana Lena Melka for roughly two decades. Harry's Good Times Co. — the team behind Harry's Fine Foods and Harry's Beach House — bought the mansion in a sale reported finalized in March 2026, to convert it into a 10-room boutique hotel and restaurant, preserving the original mahogany and oak woodwork, light fixtures and tiling.

Dining & wellness

A ground-floor restaurant and communal gathering spaces are planned; no chef, menu or amenity details have been announced yet.