US 176, 0.6 mi. Se of jct. with Ozone Rd., Saluda, North Carolina. County/parish: Polk.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 28, 2000. NRIS 00000842.
4 contributing buildings.Also known as:
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.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721874