GROVE PARK INN - FLOOR PLANS
"The Finest Resort Hotel in the World"

Hotel opened July 1st, 1913.

• The front lawn is the hundred-acre eighteen-hole golf links of the Asheville Country Club, and with it sixty acres of our own lawn. 
• The purest water obtainable anywhere, piped seventeen miles, from the slopes of Mt. Mitchell, over 6000 feet altitude. Biltmore milk and cream exclusively, supplied from 200 registered Jerseys on the estate of Mr. Geo. W. Vanderbilt. It is doubtful if this famous dairy is equaled in the world. 
• Four hundred one-piece rugs were made at Aubusson, France. Seven hundred pieces of the furniture were made by hand by the Roycrofters. The silver is hand-hammered. 
• The plumbing material is the finest that has ever been placed in any hotel in the world. The soil pipe has been hydraulically tested and then galvanized. The hot water pipe, 18,000lbs. in weight, is solid brass. The steam pipes are Byers' genuine lap-welded wrought iron tested hydraulically to 1000 lbs. The bathtubs and fixtures all solid porcelain. No pipes visible anywhere. No radiators to be seen -- all placed in recesses under windows. No electric bulbs to be seen. 
• The "Big Room," or what some call the lobby, is 85 feet by 120, and the rugs in this one room are worth $5000.00. The two great fireplaces in it will burn twelve-foot logs. 
• For the golfers there are lockers and shower-bath rooms with a forty-foot swimming pool, less than 100 yards distant from the links. 
• We own eight-hundred acres around the Inn (consumptives not taken) and are able to offer the finest combination of climate, or comfort and of happiness in surroundings that we believe has ever been made possible. 
• Especially available for northern guests in the Spring, Fall and Winter, going or returning from farther southern resorts, or for an all Winter resort. 
• The Inn is located on the side of Sunset Mountain about a mile from the top, and is not only cool enough in the Summer to make a blanket necessary at night, but is protected and mild enough in the Winter to make life enjoyable without enervation.

GROVE PARK INN, Sunset Mountain, Asheville, N.C. 

New York Booking Office,
1180 Broadway

• This dining room seats 425, and is one of the finest dining halls in existence. Furnished throughout by the Roycrofters.
• Fireproof. Sanitary. Vacuum cleaners. Ceramic floors. The most sanitary hotel in the world.
• The "Big Room" (lobby) is 120 ft long by 85 feet wide with 24-foot ceiling., and at night is lighted by 12,000 candle power of indirect illumination. 
• 500 feet of porches, nearly all of which face 160 acres of golf links and lawn. 

• Every window a casement window (like two doors)., opening from top to bottom. Double the ventilation of the regular window. 
• Absolutely noiseless steam heating system, with all radiations hidden in the walls under the windows. 

• Bathtubs, toilets and lavatories are all the finest solid porcelain. Even the lighting fixtures in the bathrooms are porcelain. 
• All the bathroom fixtures sterilized before the rooms are turned over to new guests. 

• To make the elevators absolutely noiseless, we placed them inside the jambs of the two massive chimneys in the main building and separated the machinery from the shaft with two stone walls. 
• All trunks handled on thickly rubber-tired ball bearing carriers, with rubber bumpers in front, so that the removal of baggage is as nearly noiseless as it can be made. 

• The bed linens are of imported Oxford twill, which is one of the finest materials obtainable. The pillows are of pure down. The springs are the finest "box" type, upholstered with heavy pads on top, and the mattresses are the finest "DeLux" type, retailing at $50.00 each.
• The spreads, curtains, pillow mantles, scarfs [sic], etc., are all of the finest quality pure brown linen, costing us $1.25 a yard in 2,000-yard lots. They are all hemstitched, and every piece of linen (over 12,000 in number) bears a hand-sewed name-tape.

• In one building (of which this print shows the sixth or top floor, known as building B, there are 64 guest rooms. Every one a double room and every one with private bath.
• Not a double bed in the Inn. Double rooms have two three-quarter beds and single rooms one. Suites of rooms arranged with any degree of elegance the guest may require.