Lookout Mountain Fairyland Club (NRHP #90000991) - Lookout Mountain, Georgia

The Lookout Mountain Fairyland Club, located near the Georgia-Tennessee state line atop Lookout Mountain just south of Chattanooga, Tennessee, comprises a clubhouse, ten cottages, a modern swimming pool, and landscaped grounds. It is adjacent to the Fairyland Estates Subdivision also atop Lookout Mountain. The main building and the cottages are situated to take advantage of the mountain top's natural rock formations and the view. The clubhouse is in the English Vernacular Revival or Tudor Revival style constructed of local mountain stone with half-timbering and stucco on the exterior. Built in two stages, the clubhouse was originally a residential club and thus contains many hotel rooms on the second floor as well as the large dining room and ball room on the main floor. It has a tower and crenelated battlements facing the main driveway (as seen in the photograph above).

Fairyland Estates Subdivision which was conceived in the early 1920's as an exclusive idyllic mountain top retreat where property owners and their guests could escape the heat and city strife to enjoy relaxed living in a setting harmonious with the natural rock and woodland beauty. The facilities were planned, built and financially supported by Fairyland Estates developer Garnet Carter and his wife, Frieda (also the owners & developers of Rock City), to be the social center of the Fairyland community. The main focus, the Lookout Mountain Fairyland Club building as seen above, was built between December 1924 and May 1925, and enlarged with a major ballroom and cliff top terrace area which opened in June 1926. Designed by leading local Chattanooga architect, William Hatfield Sears (1875-1951), in the Tudor Revival style so popular in the mid-1920's, the 65-room club is an asymmetrical structure of local mountain stone and stucco featuring pointed or Tudor arches, decorative use of half-timbering, bay windows and stone accents around apertures & fireplaces.

The Lookout Mountain Fairyland Club is significant in architecture because of its residential clubhouse, a rare commodity in the South, reflecting not only the necessities of being a residence with hotel rooms, but also of having dining & entertainment facilities for a club. It was also designed to incorporate the features of the mountain on which it was built including large rock outcroppings and a magnificent view from the dining room windows. It is also significant in landscape architecture because the grounds are the work of Warren Henry Manning (1860-1938) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the nation's foremost landscape architects. He trained as an associate with Frederick Law Olmsted, and after opening his own practice, he designed and built nearly 1,700 landscapes all over the United States including many public parks, university grounds, and private estates for some of the nation's most prominent citizens. Additionally, it is significant in recreation & social history because it was built as a residential clubhouse and the adjacent Mother Goose Village was built to house resident members, all part of the concept prevalent in the 1920's of the need for resorts & clubs for the relaxation of the middle class. Finally, this facility is significant in community planning & development because it was also built as an incentive for and as part of the adjacent Fairyland Estates Subdivision as part of the concept, also popular in the 1920's, of a neighborhood with support facilities. This was even more of an incentive in this example since living atop a mountain isolated the residents from other services. And for all these areas of significance, the Lookout Mountain Fairyland Club was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 21, 1990. All of the information above (and more) was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.

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Taken on: September 6, 2023

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Camera:	Nikon D7200
Aperture:	f/5.0
Focal Length:	10mm
ISO:	250
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
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