Skytop Lodge
| Skytop Lodge | |
|---|---|
  Location within Pennsylvania  Skytop Lodge (the United States) | |
| General information | |
| Location | One Skytop Lodge Road, Skytop, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 41°13′42″N 75°14′18″W / 41.228201°N 75.238239°W / 41.228201; -75.238239 |
| Completed | 1928 |
Skytop Lodge is a resort hotel that opened in June 1928.[1][2] It is a member of Historic Hotels of America.[3]
History and notable features
This hotel is situated on a 5,500 acres (22 km2) wooded site in Skytop, Pennsylvania, at an elevation of 1,500 feet in the Poconos. The property includes a 75-acre lake, 30 miles of hiking trails, and an 18-hole golf course.[4] Built at a cost of $750,000, the Dutch Colonial Revival hotel was designed by Rossiter & Muller and Mortimer Foster of New York.[5] The Olmstead Brothers of Boston were hired to situate the hotel and design its gardens and grounds.[1][6]
The hotel has been described as "a Dutch Colonial-style field-stone castle in a country club setting,"[7] and as looming "like a palatial hunting chateau in a wide clearing in the woods – so grand you might think you were trespassing on the estate of an English lord."[6]
Its golf course was begun in March 1926, and was opened in 1928 along with the hotel.[8]
References
- ^ a b Claire Gierwatowski (2015). Skytop Lodge. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781439651735.
- ^ "Skytop Lodge Opens Today at Cresco, Pennsylvania". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 17, 1928. p. 2G.
- ^ "Skytop Lodge". Historic Hotels of America. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
- ^ "Exploring Mother Nature's trails at Skytop Lodge". Courier-Post. May 17, 1998. p. 12D – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Skytop Lodge Is Opened, New Cresco, Pa., Attraction". The Philadelphia Inquirer. June 24, 1928. p. 8X.
- ^ a b Barbara Sturm (May 18, 1997). "Formality meets natural grandeur at Skytop Lodge". Asbury Park Press. p. F3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Old-time Poconos, modern comforts". Daily Record. October 13, 2002. p. B2.
- ^ "Skytop Lodge: History". Historic Hotels of America. Retrieved May 3, 2020.