History

One day in 1913, Lucy Armstrong Moltz, assisted by eleven servants, pitched a tent with a hardwood floor on the knoll of a short, oak-dotted peninsula, jutting into Lake Toxaway. Across the lake the legendary Toxaway Inn was daily hosting the likes of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, John D. Rockefeller, and many other illustrious members of elite society.

They were all attracted to this mountain lake for the same reasons that will attract you — spectacular natural beauty, cool summers, and an outdoor paradise of activities. Lucy Moltz built her six-level Swiss style mansion in this historic era. She was living here when the lake’s dam broke in 1916, and continued residing in her home until after the modern lake was created in 1961. Her mansion, now on the National Register of Historic Places, was restored and opened in 1985 as the Greystone Inn.


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