Pinehurst

The hotel provides the public with little information about its history. Our team researches the hotel's past, from the very beginning, verifying its exact opening date and providing an overview of its history up to the present day.?If you have any useful information and would like to share it, please send it to archives@famoushotels.org.?Thank you This is what we know so far (attention: unverified history!): It opened as The Carolina with its extraordinary polished copper roof in Pinehurst, a National Historic District. Designed by architect Frederick Olmsted-he planed New Yorks Central Park- to duplicate a New England village, Pinehurst was the creation of Boston philanthropist James Walker Tufts, who envisioned a health retreat on this site; originally it was croquet, but now it is famous for golfing, 1994 US Senior Open Golf tournament 1999 US Open Golf tournament