"My husbandJoe, is a retired teacher having spent 30 years in the Lorain City School system teaching gifted and talented elementary students. He was active in the Ohio and National Education Associations but since 2003 he has been active in laundering, grocery shopping, and telling stories about the Civil War and the Underground Railroad.

He grew up in a bakery during his younger years and later assisted his mother in her antique shop. It's that background that makes him a friendly, knowledgeable innkeeper."

- Susan

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My wife,Susan, is also a retired Lorain City School teacher having spent 20 years teaching GRADS & Family and Consumer Sciences or the old 'Home Ec.' classes in Jr. & Sr. high school. She grew up in a restaurant family where she learned the ins and outs of the fine food service. But there was a time during college when her dad sent her out for cabbage and she came back with lettuce! Even Home Ec. majors make mistakes! But she learned a lot over the years and now can serve a smooth and delicious breakfast!

When breakfast is over, you will find her tending the many garden rooms which have been an ongoing project evolving , growing, and blooming for 15 years!"

- Joseph

So now that you know who we are. we would like to know who you are. Come visit  as a stranger. Leave as a friend!

Just so you know who we are!

As the Innkeepers at
Hallauer House Bed & Breakfast,
in Oberlin, Ohio we would like to welcome you to the home that we have lived in since 1992. Here we launched 4 daughters and we now are enjoying our 3 grandchildren who fondly refer to us as Nans & Pops!
We have worked over the years to create an environmentally-friendly bed & breakfast through the following practices:

Using cotton, bamboo, and/or organic linens;
composting; recycling; using natural cleaning products; reusing old items in garden landscape; using newspaper as weed barrior in gardening; buying organic foods; using shower product dispensers; providing ecologically safe toiletries; using a towel reuse program with our guests; and much more!
Please join us in our eco endeavors!

Sincerely,
Joe & Susan Woodward

Brother Against Brother

This is the saying that best describes the predicament that many families (primarily the border states families) faced in which loyalties and military service were divided between the sides of Union and Confederate.

The Crittender brothers were both Brigadier Generals but on opposite sides of the conflict. George B. fought for the Confederacy and Thomas Leonidas fought for the Union.

Many soldiers met their relatives or neighbors on the battlefield. They talked across the lines and then fought to the death in the battle. Union and Confederate forces stationed at Fredericksburg during the winter of 1862 traded items by constructing small boats and floating them back and forth across the Rappahannock river.

"You are both so welcoming and I was especially touched that you went out of your way to provide a gluten-free breakfasts for me."
Charlotte from Massachusetts