Hilltop House Hotel is located in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The hotel was built in 1888 by Mr. Thomas S. Lovett, a local man of African American descent, who dreamed of managing a hotel overlooking John Brown’s historic act.  This first hotel burned in 1912, and its replacement burned again in 1917 or 1918.  Still, Lovett and his wife Lavonia perservered, and the Hilltop House Hotel became host to such…