The Carolina Inn

Title: The Carolina Inn
Description: First constructed as a store in 1848. Purchased in 1855 by
Hanson Pinkney Helper and remodeled into a thirteen-room hotel. Purchased around 1901 by the Sloan family and operated as a boarding house and weekend rooming house for visiting college girls. Purchased by the college in 1946. Used in the 1950s and 1960s as a Teen Canteen. Renovated in 1971. Designated as a Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Site in 1977.
Date: 1848
Relation: Old Inn Finding Aid; Underneath the Carolina Inn; Davidson College Campus Buildings
Alternative Title: Helper Hotel; Old Inn

Item sets: Davidson College Campus Buildings; Always Part of the Fabric: Physical Locations

Media: The Carolina Inn 2014; Helper Hotel (before the Carolina Inn); The Old Inn; The Carolina Inn post 1970s; The Carolina Inn