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Wikipedia Description: Grove Park Inn
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The Grove Park Inn is a historic resort hotel on the western slope of Sunset Mountain in Asheville, North Carolina. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the hotel is an important example of the Arts and Crafts style. It also features a modern day spa addition.

History:

The Grove Park Inn was conceptualized by Edwin Wiley Grove with the help of his son-in-law Fred Loring Seely. Grove owned a pharmaceutical company in St. Louis and believed the climate of Asheville, North Carolina would have health benefits and the ideal location for a resort.

Completed in 1913, the hotel was outfitted with furnishings from the Roycrofters of East Aurora, New York, one of the most important designers and manufacturers of Arts and Crafts furniture, metal work and other accessories. The hotel was built of rough granite stones and the expansive lobby is noted for its enormous granite fireplaces and expansive porch with its scenic overlook.

During World War II, the hotel was used first as an internment center for Axis diplomats and then was used by the Navy as a rest and rehabilitation center for returning soldiers. In 1944-45, the hotel was an Army Redistribution Station where soldiers rested and relaxed before being assigned to other duties. The Philippine Government functioned in exile from the Presidential Cottage on the grounds during the war.

The resort has been expanded over the years and continues to be a popular tourist attraction. It has accumulated a significant collection of Arts and Crafts decorative items and hosts an important Arts and Crafts conference once a year.

Golf course:

The golf club at the Grove Park Inn predates the hotel. It first opened for play in 1899, and was redesigned in 1924 by Donald Ross. Now owned by the resort, the par-70 course is a member club that is also open to the public and guests.

Famous guests:

The hotel has hosted numerous celebrities over the ...More...
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1997 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera. From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on). In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year. In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Trips this year: North Carolina (Dad), Florida (Mom), using a time share in Arkansas to visit Civil War sites in Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Civil War became my excuse to see places I'd never been to in my life and it was a great motivator for 20 years or so.
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