__NOTOC__ The Balsam Mountain Inn is an historic wooden Neo-Classical and Victorian hotel located at 68 Seven Springs Drive in

Balsam, North Carolina Balsam is an unincorporated community located in the Scott Creek township of Jackson County, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 49. There is one United ...

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. In July, 1982, it was added to the

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. Construction of the inn began in 1905 and was completed in 1908. The Inn began as a railroad resort hotel, one of many in the area. Now, the Balsam Mountain Inn is the last one standing in Balsam. The inn was bought in 1990 by Merrily Teasley, an experienced innkeeper from Tennessee. She restored the Inn, with the historic preservation certified by the U.S. Department of Interior. She even built an addition that serves as a dining porch that won the Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit from Preservation North Carolina in 1995. In 2011, Merrily returned to manage the inn. On December 1, 2017, the Balsam Mountain Inn was purchased by Marzena B. Wyszynska, an international hotelier and entrepreneur most recently from the Raleigh area. Wyszynska purchased the inn from Merrily Teasley, whose 1990 restoration rescued one of the few remaining structures of its type in the region, and will continue to operate the business as an inn, arts space and events center.

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