{"nrhp_refnum":"82003483","name":"Franklin Terrace Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"67 Harrison Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Franklin","county":"Macon County","state":"NC","lat":35.18379513000008,"lon":-83.38384429199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story stuccoed brick hotel with Italianate details on Harrison Avenue just north of the commercial district of Franklin, Macon County, North Carolina. It was erected in 1888 as the Franklin Female Seminary, a Methodist school, and converted into a hotel in 1915.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its association with late nineteenth century educational development in western North Carolina, as a school and cultural center, and with the early growth of the tourist industry in the mountains. It also cites its Italianate institutional architecture, expanded with porches and annexes when it became a hotel.","narrative":"Built in 1888 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as the Franklin Female Seminary, this two-story stuccoed brick building on Harrison Avenue has a T-plan under hip roofs, corner pilasters, corbelled bands and segmental hood-molds in the Italianate manner. The school operated until 1902, after which the building housed the Franklin public school until 1910. In 1915 sisters Blanche and Mary Willis converted it into the Franklin Terrace Hotel, adding a two-story porch and a kitchen annex. It became one of the town's principal tourist hotels, serving visitors from Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee after the Tallulah Falls Railway reached Franklin in 1906. The building is regarded as an example of a late nineteenth century institutional building that was later adapted for resort use, and it remains one of the town's oldest landmarks. Three 1920s cottages stand on the same wooded lot.","period_of_significance":"1888-1915","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored and reopened as a tourist hotel by the current owners in the late 1970s after a period of abandonment.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.109455-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/7211/47721122/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003483.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003483/5cd327427f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003483/5cd327427f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"25or6to4","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin_Terrace_Hotel,_Franklin,_NC.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">25or6to4</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franklin_Terrace_Hotel,_Franklin,_NC.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721122","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Terrace_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18150438"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/macon-county/franklin-terrace-hotel-82003483/"}