Here’s a stately building for you to identify as our Mystery Photo for this issue. No telling how long this took to build, or how many bricks are in the building. And that’s no small lawn to mow, either. Send in your thoughts to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.
The mystery from the last edition was spotted by Bob Foreman of Grayson, who wrote: “That is the Lake Lure Inn on Lake Lure in North Carolina. We visited there recently and took the boat tour.” The photograph came from Susan McBrayer of Sugar Hill.
Mark Barlow of Peachtree Corners also identified it, as did George Graf of Palmyra, Va. He wrote: “The 1927 Lake Lure Inn and Spa, in Rutherford County, N.C., which is 25 miles south of Asheville, is the beach resort in the photo. The lake is approximately 720 acres, with about 21 miles of shoreline and sits in the heart of Hickory Nut Gorge. The Rocky Broad River runs its way in a series of rapids down through Hickory Nut Gap with great stretches of water, three long bays, an island of seven acres and many small bays and inlets with a background of tree clad hills and mountains.”
One more person commented on the photo. Harriett Nicholls, Trickum, says; “I don’t know where the photograph was taken, but I do know that it would make a great jigsaw puzzle.”
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