BRAHM invites you to join us on the cusp of the 67th annual Blowing Rock Tour of Homes for an enriching evening of architectural history with award-winning author Peggy Smith.

Mountains as a Destination

Mountain landscapes offer the opportunity for recreation and relaxation, for embracing tradition and assuming new identities, for strengthening family bonds and making new friends. As chugging trains and improved roads brought outsiders to the high country, resorts like Blowing Rock developed a distinctive architecture that created a sense of place and enhanced their appeal as tourist attractions.

On the eve of Blowing Rock’s Annual Tour of Homes, Peggy Smith will (boldly) examine Sun Valley, Aspen, and Blowing Rock as cool places to visit, looking especially at the vacation architecture and identities that mountain recreation makes possible.

About the Speaker

Margaret “Peggy” Supplee Smith is the author of award-winning books on American ski resorts, North Carolina women’s history, and Winston-Salem’s great houses. She was the founding Director of Boston University’s Historic Preservation Program and the coordinator of the North Carolina Museum of History’s Women’s History Project and Exhibition. She and her family moved to North Carolina in 1979 where she taught at Wake Forest University and created the first exhibition on Reynolda as a country house.