The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-27
BRITTS BECOME
new KENTUCKY
Home owners
Property Will Be Removal
ed and Opened to Guests
by May Is
WILL STILL RUN
HENDEESONVILLE INN

Sale of the Kentucky Home no.
tel this morning to Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. Britt, Sr., and son, w. Fl.
Britt. Jr.. was announced by the
Station Insurance and Realty Co.,
through which the transfer was
contaminated.
The owners announce that their
new possession will be thoroughly
renovated and that as soon as this
is done the hotel will be opened,
possibly not later than May 18th,
with w. II. Britt, Jr., managing
the hostelry.
Mrs. Dorothea NJ. Bemis bought
the hotel about three years ago,
later selling to her daughter, Mrs.
Frances Borders, who makes title
to the Britts.-
The Kentucky Home hotel con-
tains 35 rooms, each room having
private or connecting bath, with a
total of 80 in the building.
The hotel has been operated by
many different owners, Mrs. A. NJ.
Cover, the builder, having given 1t
a great reputation and making of
il a great community asset. D.
The Wootens. who also operat-
ed the Carolina Terrace, were own
ers and operators for several
years.
The new owners expect for the
time being to operate the Ken
lucky Home as a summer hotel.
Wade Britt, who will be active
w in charge, recently returned to
the city from Brooklyn, where he
has been with the st. George hotel
for the past year and half work
ing in different capacities at desk
work, bookkeeping, cashier, room
clerk and assistant to the manager
of the largest hotel in greater
New York, the hostelry containing
1852 rooms. He has helped his
parents with hotel work from
childhood and since leaving col
lege in 1929 has been connected
with hotels in various parts of the
country. He was with the Pickwlck
Arms of Greenwich, Conn.,, rated
as "New England's most exclusive
hotel" during parts of 1933-34-
35, afterwards being with the
Knott Hotel corporation, which
owned a chain of hotels. Upon
leaving that system he connected
himself with the st. George OF
Brooklyn.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. H. Britt, who
had been in the hotel business at
various places, purchased the Hen
Jacksonville Inn in 1882. They soon
felt the need of increased space
and purchased the C. E. Brooks
residence in front Of the hotel In
1894 and converted that into an
annex to take care of the over
flow of the Hendersonville Inn.
They have operated the hotel as
a wear round place and have been
successful in keeping it filled dur
ing the winter as we'll as summer.
Mr.. Britt said the past winter was
the most successful one the hotel
had enjoyed. Last night, he said,
every room in the main building
and the annex was filled as well
as eight rooms in the Commander
Hammes property in the same
block recently purchased by the
sister of Mrs. Britt, Mrs. c. b.
Wiseman, who is occupying the
home with her daughter.
Incidentally" remarked Mrs.
Britt, "Hendersonville is a fine
place to live; our daughter, Mrs;
J. C. Meadows and husband and
four children of Charlotte have
just bought home in Fassifern
Court"
The re-decoration of the Hen
Jacksonville Inn is now reaching
the finishing stages, the exterior
and every room in the hotel hav-
ing been newly decorated.