White Sulphur Springs · Greenbrier Valley: White Sulphur
The Greenbrier
A National Historic Landmark with rooms in the C&O Railway's 1913 hotel, its 1930–31 and 1954 wings, and cottage rows of about 1800 to the 1860s.
- Built
- 1913NHL nomination: the 250-room nucleus of the Georgian main hotel (Frederick Junius Sterner) opened in 1913; North and Virginia wings 1930-31, West Wing 1954. Guests also sleep in the historic row cottages: Paradise Row (c.1800 in the resource list, 'around the 1820s' in the text), South Carolina Row (1830), Baltimore Row (1837) and Tansas Row (1860s), all contributing. Spring Row cottages (1989) are non-contributing.
- Style
- Georgian Revival (main hotel); 'Old White' cottage rows
- Architect
- Frederick Junius Sterner (1913 main building)
- Type
- Resort
- Area
- Greenbrier Valley: White Sulphur
- Credentials
- National Historic Landmark
The story
White Sulphur Springs was a summer resort for wealthy Southerners from the early 1800s, and the row cottages that face the main hotel were the resort’s original guest lodgings. ‘G’ cottage on Baltimore Row is known as Lee Cottage because Robert E. Lee stayed there in the late 1860s. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway bought the resort in 1910 and opened Sterner’s seven-story Georgian hotel in 1913; the old Grand Central Hotel (‘the Old White’) was demolished in 1922. The hotel became Ashford General Hospital in 1942, and after the C&O bought it back in 1947 Dorothy Draper redecorated every interior.
Good to know
- Parking: on-site free
- Pets welcome
- Address: 101 W Main St, White Sulphur Springs, WV 24986
Sources (2)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.