Cedar Crest Victorian Inn

Built in 1891 for Confederate veteran and businessman William E. Breese, Cedar Crest is known for its captain's walk, turrets, and expansive verandas. Ornate woodwork, said to be that of the same artisans employed by Vanderbilt at his nearby Biltmore Estate, is featured prominently inside, perhaps most ornately in the parlor's carved oak corner mantel and crown molding. Spacious bedrooms are furnished with period antiques and may have canopied or brass beds, Victorian laces, fireplace, or claw-foot tubs.

Location
Blue skies, mountain vistas and city rich in traditions; Asheville entices all to sample her pleasures. This city offers visitors a spectacular display of the brilliance of autumn's mountain foliage and a skier's paradise in winter. A cultural and recreational center for the region, visitors and residents alike delight in the variety of entertainment options offered by this city of 60,000 people: The Biltmore Estate and Gardens, Thomas Wolfe Memorial, Folk Art Center, attractions are accompanied by music and theater, summer festivals with clogging and blue grass, folk fairs and mountain pleasures like golf, trout fishing, hiking and even white water rafting.

Accommodations
In the main house ten gracious rooms have been prepared for guests. All are furnished with period antiques each boasting a unique decor. Amenities may include a canopied bed, majestically carved or gleaming brass bedstead, quilts, Victorian laces, deep claw foot tubs, all imparting a glimpse of another era. The Guest Cottage, just above the garden and the croquet pitch, is a 1915 bungalow ideal for those traveling with family, friends or seeking additional privacy

Amenities
Perched dramatically on a hill just north of Biltmore Village, the landmark commands a prominent position on a four acre site. The Queen Anne dwelling features treasured architectural details and expansive multi-level verandahs. Your hosts, Jack and Barbara McEwan, have aspired to preserve the spirit of hospitality and elegance for which it was designed. The most astonishing feature of Cedar Crest is the robust first floor interior woodwork executed with a degree of lavishness. The parlor is an ornamented display of richly carved oak and dominated by a corner fireplace. Music Room, gardens, croquet. Nearby Skiing, hiking golf, and white water rafting.

Meals
A luxurious buffet breakfast is served daily with seating in the dining room or on the spacious verandah. Cedar Crest offers a delicious hot entree; the season's fresh or hot compotes of fruit; juices; cereals; pastries, sweet breads, muffins and croissants warm from the Cedar Crest ovens. For those special mornings, your hosts and staff are delighted to serve a Chamber breakfast, bringing the morning delight to you "bedside". Afternoons you'll be refreshed with ice tea and lemonade on warm summer days; fresh cider during the magnificent autumn and hot wassail for winter holidays. Finally at day's end, to insure a most relaxing evening, Cedar Crest invites you to enjoy hot chocolate, coffee, tea and cookies by a cozy fireplace in the parlor, study or grand foyer.

Awards and Recognition
AAA four diamonds
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Children: welcome over 10

Smoking: no

Pets: no

Rates range: $130-210

Payment: Major credit cards