The Omni Grove Park Inn
A masterpiece of American Craftsman style architecture (for those who can't picture that, it looks very much like the grandest of the U.S. National Park Lodges), the Grove Park Inn celebrated its 100th birthday in 2013. And what a century it' s been! Some 10 U.S. Presidents stayed here over the years as did such luminaries as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, William Jennings Bryan, and John D. Rockefeller. At the start of World War II, the Inn became a very luxurious internment camp for Axis diplomats; later in the war, the Navy took it over and used it as a rehab center for returning sailors. The Wall Street Journal reported, in 2013, that during the Cold War, the plan was to send the Supreme Court here in the case of a nuclear attack on Washington, DC. That seems appropriate as William Howard Taft announced his resignation from the Supreme Court in 1930 from the hotel's lobby.
A masterpiece of American Craftsman style architecture (for those who can't picture that, it looks very much like the grandest of the U.S. National Park Lodges), the Grove Park Inn celebrated its 100th birthday in 2013. And what a century it' s been! Some 10 U.S. Presidents stayed here over the years as did such luminaries as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, William Jennings Bryan, and John D. Rockefeller. At the start of World War II, the Inn became a very luxurious internment camp for Axis diplomats; later in the war, the Navy took it over and used it as a rehab center for returning sailors. The Wall Street Journal reported, in 2013, that during the Cold War, the plan was to send the Supreme Court here in the case of a nuclear attack on Washington, DC. That seems appropriate as William Howard Taft announced his resignation from the Supreme Court in 1930 from the hotel's lobby.
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