Skytop Lodge | |
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General information | |
Location | One Skytop Lodge Road, Skytop, Pennsylvania |
Coordinates | 41°13′42″N 75°14′18″W / 41.228201°N 75.238239°W |
Completed | 1928 |
Skytop Lodge is a resort hotel that opened in June 1928.[1][2] It is a member of Historic Hotels of America.[3]
This hotel is situated on a 5,500 acres (22 km2) wooded site in Skytop, Pennsylvania, at an elevation of 1,500 feet in the Poconos. The property includes a 75-acre lake, 30 miles of hiking trails, and an 18-hole golf course.[4] Built at a cost of $750,000, the Dutch Colonial Revival hotel was designed by Rossiter & Muller and Mortimer Foster of New York.[5] The Olmstead Brothers of Boston were hired to situate the hotel and design its gardens and grounds.[1][6]
The hotel has been described as "a Dutch Colonial-style field-stone castle in a country club setting,"[7] and as looming "like a palatial hunting chateau in a wide clearing in the woods – so grand you might think you were trespassing on the estate of an English lord."[6]
Its golf course was begun in March 1926, and was opened in 1928 along with the hotel.[8]