Railway Clerks' Mountain House, also known as the Mountain Home, Clerks' Mountain Home, and Orchard Inn, is a historic country inn located near Saluda, Polk County, North Carolina. The inn ("home") was built in 1926, and is a two-story, six-bay, frame building with Colonial Revival and American Craftsman style design influences. It has a hipped roof and features a full width hip-roofed one-story porch supported by slender Tuscan order columns. Also on the property are three contributing guest cottages built about 1926: the "Paulownia" Cottage, "Boxwood" Cottage, and "Twin Poplar" Cottage. The property was originally developed by the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks of the Southern Railway System as a summer retreat. The union retained the property until 1962.[2]
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| Location | 100 Orchard Inn Lane (U.S. Route 176, 0.6 miles (0.97 km) southeast of the junction with Ozone Rd.), near Saluda, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°13′50″N 82°20′10″W / 35.23056°N 82.33611°W |
| Area | 12.2 acres (4.9 ha) |
| Built | 1926 |
| Architectural style | craftsman-influenced |
| NRHP reference No. | 00000842[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 28, 2000 |
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Langdon E. Oppermann (October 1999). "Railway Clerks' Mountain House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
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