The Crystal Palace - St. Thomas, USVI

The Crystal Palace Bed and Breakfast is a guest house located in Dronningens Quarter in the heart of St. Thomas' Historic district. She is surrounded by a dozen other colonial mansions -hearty survivors of the Golden Age of St. Thomas, when the merchant barons of the islands built their elaborate homes on Synagogue Hill.

Enjoy breakfast while surveying the daily arrival of the cruise ships, or sip a cocktail from the honor bar as the sunset casts a rosy glow on the old town of Charlotte Amalie.

Look up from Crystal Gade and you'll see this fine old double-breasted colonial mansion. The Crystal Palace, the Lockhart family home, was the first home built on St. Thomas to be fitted with glass sash windows. Hence, the name of the house, and the street she so elegantly dominates.