AAA Publishing and AAA Carolinas has announced that Abbington Green Bed & Breakfast Inn, an Asheville bed & breakfast inn operating since 1993, has achieved the Four Diamond Award.
Valerie
Larrea, owner/ Innkeeper of Abbington Green as a sole-proprietor since its
inception more than 21 years ago, announced the receipt of the coveted rating
by saying, “We’re very proud and excited to receive this designation from AAA
since it places Abbington Green in a premier category of lodging
establishments, particularly bed & breakfast inns, in the U.S. and Canada.
Outside the Asheville market, only seven bed & breakfasts in North Carolina
have achieved the Four Diamond Rating.”
AAA, in its
communication to Ms. Larrea said, “We are proud to acknowledge the Abbington
Green Bed & Breakfast Inn as one of North America’s select accommodations.
Only five percent of the more than 29,000 properties Approved by AAA achieve
this prestigious distinction.”
Abbington
Green Bed & Breakfast Inn, an eight-unit inn and carriage house, is located
at 46 Cumberland Circle in Asheville’s Montford Historic District. This
historic home, “Jackson-Peyton House” on the National Register of Historic
Places, was designed and built in 1909 by Biltmore Estate’s Supervising
Architect Richard Sharp Smith for Asheville businessman David Latourette
Jackson. In early 1993, Ms. Larrea purchased the property to make it into the
bed & breakfast, entirely renovating the 5,400 sq. foot main house in only
4 1/2 months. For the renovation effort, she was awarded the prestigious
Griffin Award for Historic Preservation by the Preservation Society of
Asheville and Buncombe County in the Spring of 1994. The house is one of very
few large Montford homes that remained a single-family home from 1909 to 1976,
including throughout the Depression and WWII.
The Inn,
which has a British theme (both Ms. Larrea’s family and the architect Richard
Sharp Smith were from the British Isles ), now includes extensive mature
English-style gardens. For the design and establishment of these gardens, Ms.
Larrea also won “Best Gardens in the County” designation in 1997 from
QualityForward and the Men’s Garden Club of Asheville.
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