The two story stuccoed-brick building was built in 1888, originally to serve as a girls boarding school.

In 1902 it began serving as a local public school, and in 1915 it was converted into a tourist hotel.

The building is T-shaped, with a three-bay central pavilion projecting from the main rectangular block.

A two-story wooden porch (probably added during the hotel conversion) wraps around this central pavilion, with massive square posts and a solid weatherboard balustrade.

This article about a property in Macon County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.