{"nrhp_refnum":"82004637","name":"Green Park Inn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"U.S. 321","address_restricted":false,"city":"Blowing Rock","county":"Watauga County","state":"NC","lat":36.11869007200005,"lon":-81.66052850099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story frame resort hotel on US 321 at the Blue Ridge crest in Blowing Rock, on the Watauga and Caldwell county line, North Carolina. Built in 1882 and expanded in the 1920s, late 1950s and 1970s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the inn is physical evidence of the wealthy touring public's discovery of North Carolina's mountainous west in the late nineteenth century (Criterion A). It also remains an important example of grand frame resort architecture of the late Victorian era, despite substantial alterations (Criterion C). Its original Queen Anne styling is its chief architectural interest.","narrative":"Green Park Inn is a resort hotel built in 1882 on the Eastern Continental Divide, where US 321 crosses the Blue Ridge at Blowing Rock. G. W. F. Harper, a Lenoir industrialist, built it in the community of Green Park, which Blowing Rock absorbed in 1927. The three-story frame building stretches more than 300 feet along the highway. Its original Queen Anne features include weatherboard and shingle cladding, a clipped-corner entrance bay with pendented brackets, and latticed double-tier balconies. Large additions in the late 1920s, along with later work in the 1950s and 1970s, brought a simpler Colonial Revival look, and the interior was substantially remodeled. The inn served well-to-do summer visitors who stayed for the whole season, with dances, a long porch and eventually a golf course. It was listed as an important reminder of the late nineteenth-century touring public's discovery of western North Carolina and as a surviving example of grand frame resort architecture, despite its alterations.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 and 1900- (specific dates: 1882, with later additions)","architect_builder":"Built by G. W. F. Harper, a Lenoir industrialist (the form lists the architect/builder as Unknown)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, with Colonial Revival additions and remodelings","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a resort inn, with seventy-four guest rooms; condition marked good and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:57.060554-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/7227/47722788/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82004637.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004637/3be2293c92-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004637/3be2293c92-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"G Keith Hall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_Park_Inn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">G Keith Hall</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_Park_Inn.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"94001020","name":"Green Park Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/green-park-historic-district-94001020/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722788","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Park_Inn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5602954"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/watauga-county/green-park-inn-82004637/"}