Built 1926 (1926) NRHP Reference # 00000842 Area 5 ha | Architectural style craftsman-influenced Opened 1926 Added to NRHP 28 July 2000 | |
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Location 100 Orchard Inn Lane (U.S. Route 176, 0.6 miles (0.97 km) southeast of the junction with Ozone Rd.), near Saluda, North Carolina | ||
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.