A dream more than a decade in the making manifested this spring with the opening of St. Francis Cottage, a new bed-and-breakfast inn named for the patron saint of animals, merchants and ecology.
Wallace and Nancy Braud say they’ve always thought of themselves as innkeepers, but they wanted to make sure their children were doing well before they opened the business.
Their son just graduated from University of California, Berkeley. He’s studying for the LSAT and plans to go to law school. Their daughter is married and lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
So Nancy, 62, and Wallace, 64, are filling their retirement years by launching a seven-room bed-and-breakfast, one of only a handful in Chattanooga.
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St. Francis Cottage is at 1349 Gunbarrel Road. Rates range from $130 to $259 per night. For more information, call 423-400-4177 or visit www.stfranciscottage.com.