Completed in 1885 for Richard Louis Dibrell – one of two brothers who founded the longtime tobacco brokerage firm Dibrell Brothers in 1873 – this Queen Anne mansion occupies a prominent corner lot, showing to fine advantage its charming asymmetrical form embellished by excellent brick craftsmanship, finely detailed gable windows and entrances.  Handsome high-ceilinged rooms and ornamental plasterwork make this elegant residence a perfect setting for Danville's newest bed-and breakfast inn.

Its opulence evokes a time when entrepreneurs, like Richard and Alphonzo Dibrell, chose Danville in which to make a name for themselves.  By the turn of the 20th century, Dibrell Brothers (later DIMON) became synonymous with the international tobacco trade, a Fortune 500 company which, until recently, flourished at its Danville headquarters for more titan 130 years.  The Dibrell's Broad Street home remained in the family for generations, passing from the parents to a son, Louis Nelson "Skid" Dibrell, and his wife, the former Louise Glass of Caswell County, North Carolina.  Their son, L. N. Dibrell, Jr., also reared on Broad Street, remained active in the family firm during its heyday, as did his son Louis Dibrell III.

Following nearly 85 years association with the Dibrells, the house was sold in 1969 to Mrs. Worth Griffith, who lived and maintained apartments here for about a dozen years.  The first sustained renewal of the property began in the 1980s with Joyce LaPolla, who relocated to Danville from Long Island, New York, after her daughter and son-in-law purchased the old Barnes Penn House around the corner at 1020 Main Street.  Following her patient renovation, Ms. LaPolla opened here on Broad Street a bed-and-breakfast inn, including rooms for executive rentals.  Continuing that tradition, the current owners are the most recent Danville newcomers smitten with the Dibrell mansion.  Following a two-year refurbishing, tot only has it become their home, but they also have resurrected it as gourmet bed-and-breakfast accommodations.  The couple's fathers, both named George, are the inn's namesake.