The Lookout Mountain Hotel is a grand

resort hotel A resort hotel is a hotel which often contains full-sized resort facilities with full-service accommodations and luxury amenities. These hotels may attract both business conferences and vacationing tourists and offer more than a convenient plac ...

that was built on

Lookout Mountain Lookout Mountain is a mountain ridge at the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Georgia, the northeast corner of Alabama, and along the southeastern Tennessee state line in Chattanooga. Lookout Mountain was the scene of the 18th-century "La ...

Dade County, Georgia Dade County is a county in the U.S. state of Georgia. It occupies the northwest corner of Georgia, and the county's own northwest corner is the westernmost point in the state. As of the 2020 census, the population is 16,251. The county seat a ...

in 1928. The building is now part of the

Covenant College Covenant College is a private, liberal arts, Christian college in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, United States, located near Chattanooga, Tennessee. As the college of the Presbyterian Church in America, Covenant teaches subjects from a Reformed ...

campus, where it is named Carter Hall. It is nicknamed "The Castle in the Clouds". It is a five-story building designed by architect Reuben Harrison (R.H.) Hunt, and opened as a hotel on June 23, 1928. It was built as part of a tourism surge in the area. Nearby attractions similarly built in the

Dixie Highway Dixie Highway was a United States auto trail first planned in 1914 to connect the Midwest with the South. It was part of a system and was expanded from an earlier Miami to Montreal highway. The final system is better understood as a network o ...

area there, and were supported by the 1927 paving of roads there, are Fairyland Inn (1925),

Rock City Gardens Rock City is a tourist attraction on Lookout Mountain in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Opened in , the attraction gained prominence after owners Garnet and Frieda Carter hired Clark Byers in 1935 to paint "See Rock City" barn advertisements thr ...

(1932), and

Ruby Falls Ruby Falls is an underground waterfall in Ruby Falls Cave, located at the end of an approximately 85 foot tall recessional gorge within Lookout Mountain, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the United States. The cave is commercialized with electri ...

(1930). It was extensively renovated in the late 1970s but was restored to be more like the original over a period of a decade, ending in 2017. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 2019.

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* Hotels in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places in Dade County, Georgia Buildings and structures completed in 1927 {{DadeCountyGA-NRHP-stub