Sunnybank, also known as The Inn at Hot Springs, is a historic home located at

Hot Springs A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circ ...

Madison County, North Carolina Madison County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,193. Its county seat is Marshall. Madison County is part of the Asheville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The ...

. It was built about 1875, and is a two-story, rambling

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian R ...

style frame building. It has a complex roof system of intersecting gables with deep eaves and large curvilinear sawn brackets. It was built as a private summer home, then opened as a boardinghouse in 1912. It was listed on the

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in 1980.

Gallery

File:CecilSharp HotSprings.jpg, Historic marker commemorating

Cecil Sharp Cecil James Sharp (22 November 1859 – 23 June 1924) was an English-born collector of folk songs, folk dances and instrumental music, as well as a lecturer, teacher, composer and musician. He was the pre-eminent activist in the development of t ...

References

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