Stories from the

Gray Rock Inn

The Gray Rock Inn Writing Project seeks authors, journalists, and writers to craft short stories based on the Inn’s history.

For many years, the Inn at 100 Main Street was known as Flora Sorrell’s Boarding House after the woman who ran it.

Overlook Mansion is a 20,000 square foot English Gothic-style castle constructed by Fred Seely in the 1930s.

Madelon Hancock had joined the war effort with the British Red Cross barely two weeks after the war began, three long years ago.

It was Saturday night, and the rain was coming down in waves. It had been raining for a week and the weather couldn’t have been worse.

In 2001, I took on a restoration project, turning a historical boarding house into affordable housing in Asheville, NC.