Page-Walker Hotel

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caption = The Page-Walker Hotel
location= Cary, North Carolina
lat_degrees = 35
lat_minutes = 46
lat_seconds = 16
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 78
long_minutes = 46
long_seconds = 54
long_direction = W
locmapin = North Carolina
area =
built =1868
architect=Allison Francis Page
architecture=Second Empire
added = May 29, 1979
governing_body =Private
refnum=79003339cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Page-Walker Hotel, also known as the The Page-Walker Arts & History Center is a historic hotel and museum located in Cary, North Carolina. The hotel was built in 1868 by Town of Cary founder Allison Francis Page and later sold to J.R. Walker. From 1868 until 1916, passengers from the Southern and Seaboard Air Line railroads stayed at the hotel. The hotel 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. [ [http://www.friendsofpagewalker.org/history/ahistory.htm Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel ] ]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 1979. [ [http://www.nr.nps.gov/iwisapi/explorer.dll?IWS_SCHEMA=NRIS1&IWS_LOGIN=1&IWS_REPORT=100000044 Impromptu Web Query ] ] The Arts & History Center also contains the Cary Heritage Museum, gallery exhibitions, educational rooms, an archive gallery, a smokehouse and a garden. [ [http://www.townofcary.org/depts/prdept/facilities/pwhome.htm Page-Walker Arts & History Center ] ]

ee also

*List of Registered Historic Places in North Carolina

References

External links

* [http://www.townofcary.org/depts/prdept/facilities/pwhome.htm Town of Cary's website for the hotel]
* [http://www.friendsofpagewalker.org/ Friends of the Page-Walker Hotel]