Page-Walker Hotel | |
 The Page-Walker Hotel | |
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| Location | 119 Ambassador St.,Cary, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°47′19″N78°46′46″W / 35.78861°N 78.77944°W /35.78861; -78.77944 |
| Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
| Built | c. 1868 |
| Architect | Allison Francis Page |
| Architectural style | Second Empire |
| NRHP reference No. | 79003339[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 29, 1979 |
ThePage-Walker Hotel, also known as thePage-Walker Arts & History Center, is ahistoric house museum and former hotel located inCary, North Carolina. The founder of the town of Cary,Allison Francis Page, built theSecond Empire style hotel about 1868, and J. R. Walker bought it later. Page's sonWalter Hines Page (1855–1918) was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat.[2]
From 1868 until 1916, passengers from theSouthern andSeaboard Air Line railroads stayed at the Page-Walker Hotel. The building served as a boarding house and private residence from 1916 until 1980. After the business closed, the building sat vacant and deteriorated for five years until the Cary Town Council purchased the property. Volunteers restored the exterior of the hotel to its original design.[3]
The Arts & History Center also contains theCary Heritage Museum, gallery exhibitions, educational rooms, an archive gallery, asmokehouse, and a garden.[4] The Page-Walker Hotel was added to theNational Register of Historic Places on May 29, 1979.[1]
The Page-Walker currently hosts a variety of events such as weddings. Annually, they host a "Paint the Page" art contest in which young artists from grades 8-12 are invited to draw an aspect of the building that inspires them most.
