Main Street Inn (Parkville)

Main Street Inn is a small bed-and-breakfast at 504 Main Street in downtown Parkville, Missouri, run since 2013 by Jason and Kathy Ayers in a Queen Anne house built in the 1880s a short walk from the Missouri River. Both owners come from architecture and design backgrounds and restored the house themselves; it lets three suites in the main house and a room in the adjacent carriage house.

Description

Main Street Inn is a bed-and-breakfast in the historic downtown of Parkville, Missouri, a Platte County river town on the northwest edge of the metro. The inn occupies a Queen Anne house at 504 Main Street and offers three named suites in the main house — the Missouri River Suite, the Col. Park Suite, and Old Kate’s Room — plus a room in the carriage house alongside.¹²

Jason and Kathy Ayers own and run it. Both work from design backgrounds — Jason in architecture and design, Kathy in art and architecture — and the couple had known Parkville for nearly twenty years before they took on the building in 2013 and renovated it.¹ The state tourism office describes them as architects by profession.² The interiors keep exposed brick and period fabric rather than replacing it.¹

The inn sits inside walking distance of Parkville’s Main Street businesses and English Landing Park, and is listed on the City of Parkville’s own lodging page alongside two Park House properties.³

Goods and services

• Lodging — three suites in the main house: Missouri River Suite, Col. Park Suite, Old Kate’s Room¹
• Carriage house room — one further guest room in the adjacent structure²
• Breakfast “ — the business trades as a bed-and-breakfast and is listed as one by the state and the city²³, but no first-party page describing the breakfast service was captured this pass
• Direct booking through the inn’s own reservation system⁴

History

The building. The house at 504 Main Street was built in 1885–1887 in the Queen Anne manner, first as a single-family home and later divided as a multi-family residence before its conversion to lodging.¹ Parkville itself was founded in the 1840s by Colonel George S. Park, for whom one of the inn’s suites is named, and the inn ties its own account of the property to that town history.¹

The business. The inn is a 2013 business in an 1880s house. Jason and Kathy Ayers had known and wanted Parkville for close to two decades before acquiring the property; they took it on in 2013 and carried out the renovation themselves, drawing on their architecture, design and art backgrounds.¹ The building’s 141 years and the business’s thirteen are separate facts and are not merged here: nothing in the sources consulted establishes any lodging use of the house before 2013, and the Registry does not credit the business with the building’s age.

Sources

Links

• Website: https://mainstreetinnparkville.com/
• Our Story: https://mainstreetinnparkville.com/our-story/
• Contact: https://mainstreetinnparkville.com/contact/
• Direct booking: https://secure.thinkreservations.com/mainstreetinnparkville/reservations
• VisitMO listing: https://www.visitmo.com/places-to-stay/main-street-inn-parkville
• City of Parkville lodging: https://www.parkvillemo.org/lodging
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mainstreetinnparkville/

Footnotes

1. Main Street Inn — official site, “Our Story” — asserts: owners Jason and Kathy; the inn was acquired and opened by them in 2013; the house was constructed 1885–1887 at 504 Main Street; originally a single-family home, later a multi-family residence, before conversion to a bed-and-breakfast; three guest rooms named Missouri River Suite, Col. Park Suite and Old Kate’s Room; exposed brick and historic character retained through renovation; Colonel George S. Park founded Parkville in the 1840s; Jason’s background is in architecture and design and Kathy’s in art and architecture; the couple had known Parkville for nearly twenty years before acquiring the inn. Site root: mainstreetinnparkville.com ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

2. Missouri Division of Tourism (VisitMO) — Main Street Inn, Parkville/Kansas City — asserts: address 504 Main St, Parkville, MO 64152; an 1885 Queen Anne home in downtown Parkville; owned by Jason and Kathy Ayers, who are architects by profession; four rooms each with full private baths, three suites in the main house and one in the adjacent carriage house; voted “Best Bed and Breakfast in the Northland”; telephone 1-816-272-9750; email kathy@mainstreetinnparkville.com. Primary independent (state agency) source, and the source of the owners’ surname. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

3. City of Parkville — downtown lodging page — asserts: Main Street Inn B&B is listed by the city as a “quaint historic bed & breakfast,” described as “Voted Best Kansas City Bed & Breakfast in the Northland”; the page also lists 16 Main by Park House and The Exchange by Park House as Parkville lodging. Independent confirmation that the business is currently operating. ↩ ↩²

4. Main Street Inn — direct reservation system (ThinkReservations) — asserts: the inn takes bookings through its own independent reservation account rather than a chain central reservation system. Contact page: mainstreetinnparkville.com ↩