{"nrhp_refnum":"91001468","name":"High Hampton Inn Historic District","other_names":["High Hampton","High Hampton Inn and Country Club"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NC 107 E side, 1.5 mi. S of US 64","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cashiers","county":"Jackson County","state":"NC","lat":35.09788178250005,"lon":-83.08246922310542,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A resort district of about 30 acres on the east side of NC 107, south of US 64 near Cashiers in Jackson County, North Carolina. It centers on the 1933 High Hampton Inn, designed by Erle Stillwell, along with rustic cottages, outbuildings and a recreational landscape.","why_significant":"The district is argued to represent the McKee era (1922-1941) of a long-running mountain resort, illustrating entertainment and recreation in western North Carolina (Criterion A). It is also significant as a fine collection of rustic resort architecture using chestnut bark shingles, board-and-batten siding, twig stickwork and stone chimneys (Criterion C).","narrative":"High Hampton Inn is a mountain resort on about 30 acres near Cashiers, in Jackson County, North Carolina. Its main building, a gable-roofed inn sided in chestnut bark, was completed in 1933 to designs by Erle Stillwell after a fire destroyed the earlier inn in 1932. Around it sit cottages, a smokehouse, a stable and a recreational landscape that includes two lakes, a golf course laid out in 1924, clay tennis courts and walking trails. The property's resort use began with the Hampton family and continued under the Halsteds, but the surviving buildings and grounds best reflect the years from 1922 to 1941, when lumber industrialist Ernest Lyndon McKee and his wife, Gertrude Dills McKee, developed the inn. The district was listed for its role in early twentieth-century recreation and for its rustic architecture, which features bark shingles, board-and-batten siding, twig stickwork and stone chimneys. Sixteen resources contribute to the district and four do not.","period_of_significance":"1922-1941","architect_builder":"Erle Stillwell (architect of the inn); Builders Supply and Lumber Company of Sylva (builder of the inn)","architectural_style":"Other: rustic resort","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still operating as a hotel (inn and cottages) at the time of the nomination, with an 18-hole golf course.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.059527-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/7209/47720956/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91001468.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001468/824816506d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001468/824816506d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"RichardKenni","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:High_Hampton_Inn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">RichardKenni</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:High_Hampton_Inn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720956","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Hampton_Inn_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5755594"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/jackson-county/high-hampton-inn-historic-district-91001468/"}