ASHEVILLE, N.C. – One of the South’s most iconic hotels – the one where author F. Scott Fitzgerald fired his gun into the ceiling and where German and Japanese ambassadors were cloistered during World War II – is marking a big birthday.
The Omni Grove Park Inn, nestled into one side of Sunset Mountain, has offered its guests a view of Asheville and the Blue Ridge Mountains for a century.
It’s a big deal not only to the region, but to the state, said Margo Metzger of the North Carolina Department of Commerce.
“It is arguably our most famous hotel,” she said. “In terms of a property that has such a significant impact on its community, a large property
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