Elegant sconce inside the Greenbrier Historic Resort Hotel, built in 1858 just outside White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (LOC)

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Elegant sconce inside the Greenbrier Historic Resort Hotel, built in 1858 just outside White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (LOC)
Elegant sconce inside the Greenbrier Historic Resort Hotel, built in 1858 just outside White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (LOC)

Highsmith, Carol M.,, 1946-, photographer.

Elegant sconce inside the Greenbrier Historic Resort Hotel, built in 1858 just outside White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia

2015-10-18.

1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

Notes:
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For most of its history, the hotel was owned by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and its successors, including the CSX Corporation. Following years of heavy losses, CSX placed the hotel into bankruptcy in 2009. Justice Family Group, LLC, a company owned by local entrepreneur Jim Justice, bought the property and guaranteed all debts, resulting in dismissal of the bankruptcy. Justice promised to return the hotel to its former status as a five-star resort and to introduce "tasteful" gambling for guests as a revenue enhancer. While the huge hotel and its championship golf courses are the Greenbrier's main attractions, there is another, less opulent one: a massive underground bunker that was meant to serve as an emergency shelter for the United States Congress during the Cold War.
Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:055).
Forms part of: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Subjects:
 America.--Greenbrier Resort.--Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.--Resort hotels.--Jim Justice.--Greenbrier Underground Bunker.--Sconces.
United States--West Virginia--White Sulphur Springs.

Format: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive. (DLC) 00650024

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.34471

Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 34471

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Taken on: January 1, 2015
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