Vance Hotel history of North Carolina explained.

This news article will explain the in-depth history of the Vance Hotel of North Carolina. Vance Hotel has undergone an exchange of landowners over the years. Many of them had good intentions, but foreclosures ruined their plans.

Vance Hotel was built as a 73 room hotel for a cost of $150,000 by Columbus Vance Henkel on the property of a former boarding house in 1922. Vance Hotel featured barbershop, beauty parlor, newsstand, and a general store.

The hotel was expanded to a total of 130 rooms sometime during the 1920s. The hotel lost its popularity struggling through the Great Depression. Less customers were using the services Vance Hotel had provided in previous years. The hotel regained popularity after struggling during the Great Depression at the end of WWII.

The Rathskellar Bar was established in the 1950s inside in the hotel basement which soon became a popular local hangout. Vance Hotel was sold at an auction in 1961. Vance Hotel had shut down for 15 years straight.

In 1986, Vance Hotel was purchased by Jim Bible and Ann Bible who would later remodel it and operate it as a bed and breakfast. Jim Bible and Ann Bible also operated a retirement home in the former Vance Hotel building.

Vance Hotel was foreclosed on causing the Bible's businesses to close in 1991. The Vance Hotel was purchased and partially renovated in 1994. The restaurant was reopened & a new bar called The Library was opened. Vance Hotel was foreclosed on again in 1998. However the restaurant and bar remained open interestingly. Everything closed in 2006.

In 2008, Vance Hotel was bought by physician and businessman Thomas Wilson. Vance Hotel was used in the movie "The Leathernecks”. The city bought the property from the Wilson estate after Thomas's death in 2012. Redevelopment efforts began in 2014 as the city had planned. The Vance Hotel has now undergone remodeling and had been converted to apartments in December 2017.

Vance Hotel is located at 226 South Center Street, Statesville, North Carolina, US 28677.