Holly Jackson
Jun 8, 2022
Having moved from the Washington D.C. area, Ellen “Ell” Brabo, 28, now calls Little Washington home. She redecorated, painted and added bathrooms to her physical home – transforming it into the Ell Hotel Bed and Breakfast and becoming the owner and innkeeper.
Located at 1040 N. Market Street, the Ell Hotel is also known as the Bowers-Tripp House which was built in 1921 by Benton and Benton from Wilson, North Carolina. In the last century the home has had five owners, one of them being Richard Tripp, a former mayor of Washington.
Brabo is a Virginia native and U.S. Army veteran. She was a public affairs officer from 2015 to 2020. In the military she had a high-energy and demanding job. Conversely, after she transitioned out of the military and took a temporary job in Washington, D.C. Brabo felt as if she had a lot of “idle time” on her hands, she said. She took a few side jobs that utilized her background in marketing and social media, but did not find it “very rewarding,” she said.
Read more at: https://www.thewashingtondailynews.com/2022/06/08/new-bed-and-breakfast-opens-this-weekend/
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