Farmer Melchior Siep bought this stretch of Lehigh Valley farmland in 1787, a full decade before the nearby village of Fogelsville even existed, in a region whose German immigrant farmers had supplied grain to George Washington’s Continental Army during the Revolution. The property changed hands repeatedly over the following century, and John Mohr built the current 1870 main barn that still anchors the property today. After the last private owner, William Kirschner, died, the farm sat abandoned and neglected for thirteen years.
Al and Beth Granger, who ran a bed-and-breakfast nearby, bought the 16-acre property in 1985, with Beth’s one condition being indoor plumbing for the farmhouse. The couple spent decades converting the barn, tractor shed, and other outbuildings into guest rooms, even dismantling and rebuilding an entire stable, beam by beam, from a neighboring farm. Al remained active on the grounds into his nineties before selling to the Jaindl family in 2024, and Scottish Highland cattle still graze within view of the inn’s porch.