Lookout Mountain Hotel Explained

Lookout Mountain Hotel
Coordinates:34.9655°N -85.3749°W
Added:February 27, 2019
Refnum:100003423[1]

The Lookout Mountain Hotel is a grand resort hotel that was built on Lookout Mountain in Dade County, Georgia in 1928.[2] The building is now part of the Covenant College campus, where it is named Carter Hall.[3] It is nicknamed "The Castle in the Clouds".

It is a five-story building designed by architect Reuben Harrison (R.H.) Hunt, and opened as a hotel on June 23, 1928.[4] It was built as part of a tourism surge in the area. Nearby attractions similarly built in the Dixie Highway area there, and were supported by the 1927 paving of roads there, are Fairyland Inn (1925), Rock City Gardens (1932), and Ruby Falls (1930).

It was extensively renovated in the late 1970s but was restored to be more like the original over a period of a decade, ending in 2017.[5] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Weekly List 20190301 . March 1, 2019.
  2. News: Covenant College Renovation Latest Chapter In Carter Hall's Storied History . The Chattanoogan.Com . October 5, 2015 . John Shearer . October 30, 2019.
  3. Web site: Carter Hall.
  4. News: Covenant College Renovation Latest Chapter In Carter Hall's Storied History . The Chattanoogan.Com . October 5, 2015 . John Shearer . October 30, 2019.
  5. Web site: Rehabilitating Lookout Mountain's historic "Castle in the Clouds" . John Stoughton . January 12, 2018 . The Architect's Newspaper.