Blue Ridge Terrace, Afton, VA
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10039 Rockfish Gap Turnpike
Afton, VA
22920
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The Blue Ridge Terrace Inn (now apartments) was first pictured on a postcard dated September 1927. A Landes family constructed the Inn on a 10-acre site beside U.S. 250 east of Rockfish Gap, near the hairpin turn-off to Afton, and likely opened earlier that year. The Inn featured a 40-mile view of Rockfish Valley, an artesian well which provided water to Afton residents, 10 hotel rooms, an apartment, two bathrooms inside the Inn, a dining room, a sandwich room, a separate cottage with a pottery shop and four bathrooms, an extensive flower garden and a separate boxwood garden fronting Rockfish Valley which were used for weddings and small high school parties. A staff of 17 waitresses and cooks, many from Afton, worked breakfast, lunch and dinner meals. The meal price during the 1930s for breakfast or lunch was 50 cents and dinner cost 75 cents. Mr. Landes managed Blue Ridge Terrace Inn with an iron fist and demanded good manners from his wait staff and respect from his customers toward his staff. He would toss unruly customers out of his dining hall and inn. Two movie stars who visited the inn were Robert Taylor and cowboy Lash Larue. In 1963, nine acres of the property was purchased to construct I-64 and the inn converted to four apartments. Ann Gaynor purchased Blue Ridge Terrace Sept. 27, 1980, and doubled the building size to accommodate eight apartments. Gaynor has owned Blue Ridge Terrace for 27 years, but has recently advertised it for sale.
From the Daily Progress, News Virginian Nov 14, 2007:
