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Manor Hotel |
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| "The Manor, open the year round, has many original
and distinctive features which make it widely different from the regular
hotels found in most resorts. It provides a perfectly comfortable place
to live for a long or short time: attractive in its surroundings,
complete but modest in its appointments, having that air of refinement
essential to the comfort of cultivated people,. Every effort is made to
have the place as nearly like a home as a public house can well be made,
and in carrying out this idea, all the conventional hotel features which
are not essential to a proper service are eliminated.
The dining room is commodious and well ventilated, the large windows commanding splendid views of woods and mountains on either side. The table is good, supplied with the best fare, attractively served. Here the difference from the regular hotel is marked by the absence of the usual fancy French dishes, the table being very much like that of a well-conducted private house. The dining room service is performed by quiet and efficient waitresses. All rooms are front rooms. Those on the west and south open upon a fine view of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance, while from the eastern side may be seen Albemarle park, with its wooded slopes and serpentine macadam roads, and Sunset Mountain in the background. The rooms are well furnished and have beds which are not surpassed by the finest hotels in the large cities. The building is lighted throughout by electricity and thoroughly heated by steam. A number of the rooms have open fire-places in addition to the other means of heating. The public rooms are numerous and of ample size, and there are several porches on the south, east and west, which add greatly to the comfort of the house. The management has found it necessary to exclude persons with tuberculosis from The Manor, and as this rule is rigidly enforced, it will be useless for anyone so affected to apply. "From: The Manor, a small booklet about the hotel.
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From Rogers Asheville [rogers0009e] |
| See: E.M.
Ball Photographic Collection Manor Hotel, entrance lodge. (N1936) Manor Hotel, grounds. (N1949) Manor Hotel, grounds, Crow's Nest Studio. (N1062) Manor Hotel, grounds from Cherokee lodge. (N1948) Manor Hotel, west front view from street. (N983) |
| Relation: The Manor, UNCA Special Collections |
