Railway Clerks' Mountain House

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Railway Clerks' Mountain House
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Location100 Orchard Inn Lane (U.S. Route 176, 0.6 miles (0.97 km) southeast of the junction with Ozone Rd.), near Saluda, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°13′50″N82°20′10″W / 35.23056°N 82.33611°W / 35.23056; -82.33611
Area12.2 acres (4.9 ha)
Built1926 (1926)
Architectural stylecraftsman-influenced
NRHP reference No. 00000842 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 28, 2000

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]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 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.