Description
The George Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina, stands majestically, a brick-red and white beauty with cars parked before it, as depicted on this postcard. Asheville is praised as the “most perfect all-year playground and pleasure resort in America,” surrounded by stunning mountain scenery. This postcard, from the E. C. Kropp Co. of Milwaukee, is likely from the 1920s.
Front Text (cleaned):
GEORGE VANDERBILT HOTEL, ASHEVILLE, N.C. 28
"IN THE LAND OF THE SKY"
Back Text (cleaned):
E. C. KROPP CO., MILWAUKEE
Asheville, the capital of western North Carolina, where every scene is a picture, the most perfect all-year playground and pleasure resort in America. Placed within the swing of a circle 100 miles around Asheville are one hundred peaks a mile high, sixty-four over 6,000 feet, and lofty Mt. Mitchell, 6,711 feet, all clothed with forests of hardwood, spruce, balsam; with rivers, sparkling mountain streams, cascades, falls, and a climate unsurpassed in all the world for any season.
