Balsam Mountain Inn, Seven Springs Drive, Balsam, NC : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Balsam Mountain Inn, Seven Springs Drive, Balsam, NC / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1906-1908, this Colonial Revival-style building was built by Joseph Kenney and Walter Christy as a 100-room railroad resort hotel at the Balsam Gap along the Southern Railroad Murphy Branch at Balsam, North Carolina. The hotel, originally known as the Balsam Mountain Springs Hotel, originally had a spring on the property that was a major attraction for early tourists, and the hotel operated seasonally during the warm months, being closed in the winter. The hotel thrived until the Great Depression, when it was foreclosed upon, and auctioned by Jackson County, being won in the auction by Ephriam Stillwell, whom owned the hotel for the next few decades. The hotel, however, had fallen somewhat into decline by this time, with the third floor being unused and closed off. After World War II, the rise of automobile travel led to the hotel declining further in popularity, but it did remain in operation due to its location between the towns of Sylva and Waynesville just off US Highway 23.The three-story wood-frame building is clad in wooden clapboard with two-over-two double-hung windows, a mansard and hipped roof, gabled dormers, a two-story gallery-style 100-foot-long front porch with doric columns and a decorative wooden balustrade, a rough-hewn stone and brick foundation, a service wing on the south side of the building with a kitchen and dining room on the first floor, and an enclosed sun porch on the front facade of the service wing. The interior of the building features painted beadboard walls and wooden floors, broad hallways, wooden balustrades at the staircases, doors with transoms, fireplaces with wooden mantles and decorative tile surrounds, historic plumbing fixtures in the hotel rooms, doric columns in the dining room, and period-correct light fixtures in the lobby, lounge, and library.The hotel declined throughout the postwar period, and closed in the 1980s. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The building remained empty until 1990, when it was acquired by Merrily Teasley and underwent a significant rehabilitation and restoration, which received a preservation award in 1995. The hotel was sold by Teasley in 2017, closed in 2020, and was sold to its present owners in 2023. Today, the hotel is undergoing yet another much-needed rehabilitation and restoration project. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-05-25 19:19:40 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Scott Creek Township, North Carolina, United States 地図 |