{"nrhp_refnum":"89002270","name":"Glen-Ella Springs Hotel","other_names":["Rocky Bottom Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"SW of Tallulah Falls on Co. Rd. 218","address_restricted":false,"city":"Turnerville","county":"Habersham County","state":"GA","lat":34.720090685500054,"lon":-83.44818527063346,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-01-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A U-shaped, frame vernacular Victorian mountain hotel complex in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Turnerville and Tallulah Falls, Habersham County, Georgia, built in three phases around 1870, 1885 and 1900, with a log barn, smokehouse and mineral spring.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare surviving example of the multi-storied, gabled, springs-oriented hotels once common in 19th-century Georgia. It also reflects North Georgia's resort era, when railroad tourism to Tallulah Falls brought summer guests to the mountains. Its simple frame construction and local materials illustrate a typical mineral springs inn.","narrative":"Set in a valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Tallulah Falls, this frame hotel grew in three stages from a c. 1870 farmhouse built by the Davidson family. A three-story residence hall followed around 1885 and a two-story middle section around 1900. Pine floors and paneling, fieldstone foundations and chimneys, and railroad rails used as fireplace lintels show the use of local materials. The plain interiors reflected the purity and health guests hoped to gain at a mineral springs. The complex also includes a log barn, a smokehouse, a mineral spring and a stone tablet listing the water's contents. Summer visitors from South Georgia arrived by the Tallulah Falls Railroad and were met by mule-drawn surrey. The hotel declined after the falls were harnessed for power in 1918 and ceased hotel operation in the late 1920s, later becoming Rocky Bottom Farm. It is considered one of the last mineral springs hotels in Georgia and reopened as an inn in 1987.","period_of_significance":"c. 1870-1939","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"OTHER: Vernacular Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated and reopened in 1987 as a modern inn with a public dining room; current function is hotel.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.418401-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/89002270.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002270/f3e0c56d12-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002270/f3e0c56d12-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Keep Calm &amp; Learn a.k.a. Hannah Carruthers,","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poolside_View_Glen-Ella_Springs.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Keep Calm &amp;amp; Learn a.k.a. Hannah Carruthers,</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:Poolside_View_Glen-Ella_Springs.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208538","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111394543"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/habersham-county/glen-ella-springs-hotel-89002270/"}