Already gutted and partially renovated, the motel's river-front rooms are outfitted with new doors, soon to be painted sienna red in keeping with the Grogan's original color motif.Â
Entrepreneur Glinda Cox plans to renovate the long-shuttered Grogan's Tourist Court and open it as an upscale boutique motel, complete with riverfront treehouses for lodgers.
The old Grogan's key box.Â
The interior of the refurbished Grogan's Tourist Court motel office, soon to be known as Grogan's Riverside, a boutique motel.Â
Working on the iconic office sign at the 18-unit motel on U.S. Hwy 220 at the foot of the Dan River Bridge at the entry to Madison.Â
Antique nails and freshly-revealed, sanded hardwood floors from the original 1931 motel construction.Â
Cox, a Saxapahaw native who fell in love with the motel and the town, knocks debris from the ceiling of one of the motel's rooms.Â
Helper Scott unloads scores of retro glass tiles to be used in the motel's bathrooms.
Gutting and renovating the 18 motel rooms, conference center and office.Â
A vintage postcard shows Grogan's Tourist Court motel during its heyday.
Workmen helped reveal wooden ceiling beams of the 1931 structure, a detail Cox plans to showcase throughout the facility.Â
One of Cox's first goals was to tackle renovation of the historic motel's office. She bedecked the building with Christmas lights and decked out a vintage tinsel tree to celebrate a strong start.Â
MADISON — Watching Glinda Cox pull 40-year-old debris from a motel ceiling, you’d never guess she grew up with legs in braces and blind in one eye.
Contact Susie C. Spear at sspear@rockinghamnow.com, (336) 349-4331, ext. 6140 and follow @SpearSusie_RCN on Twitter.
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