Fairfield Inn (Cashiers, North Carolina) Explained

Fairfield Inn
Location:US 64 East, Cashiers, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.1244°N -83.0433°W
Built:-1898
Builder:Toxaway Company
Architecture:Queen Anne
Added:June 14, 1982
Refnum:82003476

The Fairfield Inn was an historic hotel building located on Fairfield Lake near US Highway 64 in Cashiers, Jackson County, North Carolina. It was built in 1896-1898, and consisted of a 2 1/2-story main block with two rear wings. The Queen Anne style frame building featured three massive singled gables, hipped dormers, a three-story corner turret, elliptical windows, and a one-story lakeside verandah. The hotel had 100 rooms.[1]

In July, 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[2]

Current use

The building was originally built in 1896 near a former gold mine on Lake Fairfield and added to in the early 1900s. It stood on Lake Fairfield near US 64 until 1986. Never renovated, a fire in 1986 exposed the fact the hotel was unsafe and it was demolished later that year.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Janet Hutchinson and Walter Best. Fairfield Inn . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . September 1981. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-01-01.
  2. The History of Jackson County Sesquicentennial Edition
  3. Web site: Sapphire Valley's Fairfield Inn . 2015-01-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150118153039/http://sapphirevalley.com/Fairfield_Inn_1896.php . 2015-01-18 . dead .