Lake Junaluska in Haywood County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
Lambuth Inn
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Churches & Religion. A significant historical year for this entry is 1921.
Location. 35° 31.728′ N, 82° 58.025′ W. Marker is in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, in Haywood County. Marker is on Lambuth Drive east of North Lakeshore Drive, on the left when traveling east. Marker is at the hotel's main entrance. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 55 Lambuth Dr, Lake Junaluska NC 28745, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Honorable Chief Junaluska (approx. ¼ mile away); Bishop Francis Asbury (approx. 0.3 miles away); "Cataloochee Trail" (approx. 0.9 miles away); Turpin's Chapel - Maple Grove United Methodist Church (approx. 1.4 miles away); Haywood County Revolutionary War Memorial (approx. 2.7 miles away); Haywood County Vietnam War Memorial (approx. 2.7 miles away); Haywood County Korean War Memorial (approx. 2.7 miles away); Haywood County Veterans Monument (approx. 2.7 miles away).
Regarding Lambuth Inn. Excerpt from the National register nomination:
The Lambeth Inn, also called the Mission Centenary Inn and the Lambeth Hotel at various times, is the main hotel facility of the Lake Junaluska Assembly, located in Haywood County in the North Carolina mountains. The Lake Junaluska Assembly, which opened in 1913, houses a variety of Methodist conferences, seminars, and meetings. The Assembly is owned and operated by the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church and encompasses approximately 2500 acres and a 250 acre lake. Since 1952, the World Methodist Council has had it s American headquarters at Lake Junaluska. Against a backdrop of wooded mountainsides, the three-story frame and brick Lambuth Inn stands as a picturesque focal point in the Lake Junaluska Assembly, sited slightly above the other buildings which line the northern lakeshore. Constructed in 1921 and enlarged in the 1950s, the Lambuth Inn is a handsome, fully articulated example of Neoclassical Revival architecture, rare in its use for a mountain inn.
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