The Green Park Inn in Blowing Rock has been named as one of the top-25 historic hotels in the nation for 2024 as measured by their connections to influential writers and literary movements.
The recognition came from Historic Hotels of America, an official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Green Park Inn, which opened in 1891, is built from American Chestnut and Heart Pine and a "beautiful example of Queen Anne-style architecture."
The inn was inducted into Historic Hotels of America in 2012.
Green Park Inn has an important literary connection to author Margaret Mitchell, who stayed there between 1926 and 1929 to work on "Gone with the Wind."
In 1937, Mitchell returned to Blowing Rock and resided at the inn while serving as a guest lecturer at the Blowing Rock School of English. It was the same year she received the Pulitzer Prize for "Gone with the Wind."