The Jarrett House

United States historic place


Mount Beulah Hotel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The Jarrett House, November 2013
35°22′11″N 83°15′6″W / 35.36972°N 83.25167°W / 35.36972; -83.25167
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1884 (1884), c. 1910
NRHP reference No.	84002337^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 1, 1984

The Mount Beulah Hotel, also known as the Jarrett Springs Hotel and known for the last 70 years as The Jarrett House, is an historic hotel located near the intersection of US Highways 23 and 441 in Dillsboro, Jackson County, North Carolina. It was built about 1884, and is three-story frame hotel with a triple-tiered porch. It combines traditional and modest Victorian decorative elements. The building has had a number of additions and modifications since its construction.^[2]

In 1984 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.^[1]^[3]

Current use

The buildings and lot are being auctioned for back taxes on September 22, 2020, Jackson cty courthouse 2pm The building is the dominant building of downtown Dillsboro, North Carolina, and still serves as a hotel and restaurant. It was renovated in 1975, removing the original wooden Victorian porch and replacing it with a cast iron New Orleans-Style Porch and has had many minor cosmetic upgrades over the years. It is one of the few remaining grand Southern Railway (U.S.) Resort Hotels.^[4]

Gallery

Jarrett House as it appeared from the 1930s up until the 1970s

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Michael Ann Williams (October 1983). "Mount Beulah Hotel" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-01-01.
^ The History of Jackson County Sesquicentennial Edition
^ Jarrett House website