Copper and Lumber Store Historic Inn

The Copper and Lumber Store Historic Inn was built in 1789 to house the materials for repairing and maintaining the wooden sailing ships of the Royal Navy. The building was an addition to the already thriving Naval Dockyard, which was later renamed Nelson’s Dockyard in honor of famed Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson. In 1951, a group of preservationists, The Society of the Friends of the English Harbour, began to restore the dockyard. That project would eventually become part of Nelson’s Dockyard National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the largest of Antigua’s National Parks. The 18th-century Copper and Lumber Store Historic Inn is near Nelson’s Dockyard National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the Dockyard Museum, and The Pillars of Hercules. The inn overlooks the English Harbour and is located 3.4 km from Galleon Beach, 1.4 km from Pigeon Point Beach, and 22 km from V. C. Bird International Airport.