Warren House B&B - Penticton, BC - Bed and Breakfast on Waymarking.com

Were it not for glacial action in the past, there would not be a Penticton. The city occupies the entirety of a deposit of glacial till which separates Okanagan Lake from Skaha Lake.
As a result Penticton has lakes and beaches at each of its north and south ends.

In the 1930s the north (Okanagan Lake) shore became the most desirable building site in the city for its lake shore location. So, during the '30s some of the city's most prestigious homes were built along Lakeshore Drive, facing the lake and the view well up the lake toward Kelowna.

Today known as the Warren House B&B, the onetime Warren House was built as a two storey Georgian Revival residence for J.J. Warren, President of the Kettle Valley Railway. See the story of the Kettle Valley Railway in Penticton. The official headquarters of the Kettle Valley Railway (KVR), it was an obvious decision that the railway's president should be domiciled in Penticton, and in a residence representative of his status in the city.

Two decades before Lakeshore Drive became the fashionable area it did, the KVR began construction on its railway in 1910, completing the Midway to Hope section in 1915. It was in 1912, not long after the railway was begun, that the Warren House was built here. Later, in order to serve the fruit industry in the far south of the Okanagan Valley, a spur line was run from Penticton to Osoyoos, at the Canada-U.S. border.

More than a century later the house still stood and was purchased by an enterprising couple in 2018. Following several months of necessary renovations and updates, Warren House B&B opened its doors as a Bed & Breakfast to eager customers in June of 2019. Today it is an adult only facility with age restrictions of 25+ which welcomes all genders/orientations. On the B&B's two floors are 5 suites, each retaining, as much as possible, the historic charm of the building. Some of the amenities offers are free WI-FI, onsite parking & secure bike storage.