Grant Lee Hall

Tennessee · USA · Hospital

When the university was a hotel, the sanatorium burned to the ground. Everyone got out except a woman in a red dress and her child, on the fourth floor.

Before this became a university at Harrogate, Tennessee, the site was the Four Seasons Hotel, a grand resort in the Cumberland Gap.

A fire broke out in the sanatorium building, which is now Grant Lee Hall, and it burned to the ground. Everyone got out except a woman in a red dress and her child, who were on the fourth floor.

Another fire broke out in the 1960s, and the account continues from there.

The hotel is worth knowing about. It was built by English investors in the 1880s as part of an enormous scheme to industrialise the Cumberland Gap, complete with a railway tunnel and a resort for the shareholders. The scheme collapsed and the buildings were handed over, which is how the university came to exist.

A fourth floor in a wooden resort building had no realistic escape route.

The hall is student housing.

FAQ

Hvor ligger Grant Lee Hall?

Grant Lee Hall ligger i Tennessee, USA.