For 115 years the Fairfax Inn has been a boarding house and  prohibition era speakeasy on Cleveland's East side, 

 

Once home to Jews, Italians, Czechs and Hungarians, the neighborhood now known as Fairfax, became a bustling African-American entertainnment district during the Great Migration. 

 

In that time, the newly named Fairfax Inn has been a numbers house, a brothel and a rooming house -Martin Luther King was rumored to have stayed here secretly in 1967- while the after hours joint behind the secret door hosted luminaries like Langston Hughes, Don King and Louis Stokes after shows at the Karamu or dinner at the Lancer.

 

These days we welcome guests from all over the world to our bed and breakfast, the local community who stop in for coffee and pastry in the morning, and local chefs who regularly join us for world class seasonal menus by invitation. But one thing has not changed,

We are still as discreet as ever.