It was the Roaring Twenties, and Clinton, Indiana was bustling. The immigrant workers, who came to toil in the mines, now found that Prohibition was the salvation of their families after the mines had closed. Prohibition, despite its bad press, provided the money for the families of Clinton to exist, build homes, and educate their children.  Crime was not necessarily greater.

Ralph M. Pentreath, an immigrant himself from Cornwall, England, had come as a traveling salesman and married Derexa Whitcomb, grand-daughter and niece of governors of Indiana.  Ralph managed his wife's rental properties and farms, owned an interest in the local hotel, an auto agency, started a lumberyard, and fathered a daughter.

Ralph built a brick, Edwardian home worthy of an English gentleman and suitable to the neighborhood, established by some of Clinton's wealthiest businessmen.  With an elegant porch across the front, a sheltering porte-coche, golden oak woodwork, beveled glass French doors, coal-burning fireplace, central hot-water heat (central air-conditioning was added in the 1980's), a two-car garage, and a second story summer porch, his home was the envy of Clinton.  In 1926 the Pentreaths, their daughter and maid, moved into their showplace.

In 1989, Louis and Laura Savage, realizing the potential of the residence, bought the house and converted it into a Bed & Breakfast. Since then they have been restoring the house to its 1926 elegance, with modern amenities.