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An original Black Mountain College cottage in a private wooded property

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Reviews

9.6 out of 10
Exceptional
4 bedrooms2 bathroomsSleeps 8

Popular amenities

  • Onsite parking available
  • Dog-friendly
  • Kitchen
  • Washing machine
  • Air-conditioning
  • Barbecue

Explore the area

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Black Mountain, NC
  • Place, Pisgah Brewing Company
    ‪6 min drive‬
  • Place, Lake Tomahawk
    ‪7 min drive‬
  • Place, Black Mountain Golf Club
    ‪8 min drive‬
  • Airport, Asheville, NC (AVL-Asheville Regional)
    ‪29 min drive‬

Rooms & beds

4 bedrooms (sleeps 8)

Bedroom 1

1 Queen Bed

Bedroom 2

1 Single Bed

Bedroom 3

1 King Bed

Bedroom 4

1 Queen Bed

2 bathrooms

Bathroom 1

Bathtub or shower · Toilet

Bathroom 2

Toilet · Shower only

Spaces

Deck or patio
Porch or lanai
Kitchen
Outdoor play area
Garden

About this property

An original Black Mountain College cottage in a private wooded property

Built in the 1940's, this cottage was constructed as a Black Mountain College faculty lodging. It is believed to be the only house ever designed by Josef Albers, the famed artist who taught for many years at the school after leaving the Bauhaus in Germany. The cottage has been renovated and added onto over the years with a front porch, rear deck, 4 bedrooms, full kitchen and more. The deck overlooks a private yard next to a stream that quietly babbles on its way to our private lake.

Sleeps 2-8: 4 bed / 2 bath
1 king bedroom downstairs
2 queen bedrooms on main level
2 singles in annex bedroom (accessed through queen room)
Gas Grill on deck
Full Kitchen
Linens & towels provided
Washer / Dryer
Wifi
Central Heat & A/C
Great Deck & yard
Private firepit
Just 5 minutes from downtown Black Mountain
Just 20 minutes from downtown Asheville

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House Rules

Check in after 3:00 PM
Minimum age to rent: 24
Check out before 12:00 PM
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Children

Children allowed: ages 0–17
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Events

No events allowed
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Pets

Pets allowed: dogs (limit 2 total)
$60 per pet fee per stay will be applied
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Smoking

Smoking is not permitted

Important information

You need to know

Property # 2722922vb
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
On-site parties or group events are strictly prohibited
Host has not indicated whether there is a carbon monoxide detector on the property; consider bringing a portable detector with you on the trip
Host has not indicated whether there is a smoke detector on the property

About the area

Black Mountain

Located in Black Mountain, this cottage is in a rural area and in the mountains. Travellers eager for a bit of culture can stop by Harrah's Cherokee Center - Asheville, while those wishing to experience the area's natural beauty can explore Blue Ridge Parkway Asheville Entrance and Biltmore Estate. Looking to enjoy an event or a game while in town? See what's happening at The Orange Peel or Patricia Cornwell Tennis Center. Discover the area's water adventures with nearby fishing, or enjoy the great outdoors with hiking/biking trails, ecotours and mountain climbing.
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Black Mountain, NC

What's nearby

  • Pisgah Brewing Company - 6 min drive - 4.4 km
  • Lake Tomahawk - 7 min drive - 5.3 km
  • Black Mountain Golf Club - 8 min drive - 5.7 km
  • Black Mountain Center for the Arts - 8 min drive - 6.9 km
  • Swannanoa Valley Museum - 8 min drive - 6.9 km

Getting around

  • Asheville Regional Airport (AVL) - 51 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Recess Coffee and Baked Goods - ‬10 min drive
  • ‪Thirteen Pennies Cafe - ‬4 min drive
  • ‪Dynamite Roasting Co. - ‬11 min drive
  • ‪Pisgah Brewing Company - ‬9 min drive
  • ‪The Laundry Collective - ‬11 min drive

Frequently asked questions

Is An original Black Mountain College cottage in a private wooded property pet-friendly?

Yes, this property allows dogs (limit 2 total).

How much is parking at An original Black Mountain College cottage in a private wooded property?

On-site parking is available at the property.

What time is check-in at An original Black Mountain College cottage in a private wooded property?

Check-in begins at 3:00 PM.

What time is check-out at An original Black Mountain College cottage in a private wooded property?

Checkout is at 12:00 PM.

Where is An original Black Mountain College cottage in a private wooded property located?

Situated in the mountains, this cottage is 2.1 mi (3.4 km) from Pisgah Brewing Company and within 6 miles (10 km) of Swannanoa Valley Museum and Lake Tomahawk. The Merry Wine Market and White Horse Black Mountain are also within 6 miles (10 km).

Reviews

9.6

Exceptional

Reviews are presented in chronological order, subject to a moderation process, and verified unless otherwise labelled.
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Rating 10 - Excellent. 21 out of 28 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 6 out of 28 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 1 out of 28 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 28 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 0 out of 28 reviews

9.4/10

Cleanliness

9.8/10

Check-in

9.8/10

Communication

9.8/10

Location

9.8/10

Listing accuracy

Reviews

Verified

8/10 Good

Carmen L.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Location beautiful and peaceful.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Charlotte W.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Thoroughly enjoyed our stay at Black Mountain. Lovely, spacious cabin, well stocked and comfortable. A bit of noise and activity, including shooting from the rifle range at the nearby boys summer camp but we still had a great stay.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Angie R.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Lovely get away

We really enjoyed our stay in the cottage. It was the perfect amount if room for our party of 7. It is a great place to stay when you want to unplug!
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

gordon s.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Gorgeous and as advertised.

Quiet and beautiful area with views of mountains and forest.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Michael B.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Very quiet with plenty of space.

The location is far enough out of town to be peaceful but close enough to go into town if that's your thing. Would recommend and would stay again. Host is very nice. Thanks for a nice stay.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Linc T.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Family getaway

This house worked well for our family. The location is beautiful and felt safe and tucked away. We appreciated the historic quality of the house.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Jason N.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Very relaxing

Just as advertised. Nice and quiet place to stay with family and friends.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2023
Verified

8/10 Good

Mary C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Mountain cabin

Property just as listed. Quiet mountain cabin. We cooked smores and went for walks. Also visited a quaint downtown area.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Rebecca P.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Charming cottage

Loved staying at this cottage, it had a lot of charm and plenty of space for our party of 8 to comfortably sleep. Added bonus it is super close to the town of Black Mointain. I’m
Stayed 3 nights in May 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Ellen O.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Peaceful mountain retreat

What a beautiful place for a vacation! This is our second time staying at the Albers, and it hasn’t disappointed. This cottage isn’t fancy, but it’s clean and comfortable, and you can’t beat the natural beauty and interesting history. The owner was also super nice, helpful and knowledgeable about the area and its history. We’ll be back!
Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Christina K.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Husband’s 60th Birthday

Amazing property with plenty of space and rentals for everyone who wanted to celebrate with us. Property has a cool history and was beautiful. Tucked away, yet close to everything. Leigh was great, and answered all my questions.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

L C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Rented this beautiful little cottage for family for daughter's nearby wedding. Absolutely charming and peaceful; lovely break from wedding stress. Daughter and bridesmaids were able to get ready for ceremony here as well. They loved the large open great room. Family said beds were all comfortable and they loved the beautiful surroundings. Perfect size to enjoy one another's company without being on top of each other. Very clean, great provisions, close to Asheville and Black Mountain. Overall excellent experience! I will definitely reach out again!
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Jessica P.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

August 2022

Home and property were as described. The grounds were really, really beautiful. Close to everything but very much in nature. Plenty of room for our family to stretch out. Would love to stay longer next time.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 30 Aug 2022
Thank you for your review. It was very nice meeting you and your family and hope the rest of your roadtrip went well! Come back and see us anytime.
Verified

8/10 Good

eric r.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great oldhouse

Very relaxing. Excellent wooded location for walking dog. Icemaker broken minor glitch. Well provisioned with toiletries garbag bags etc. cozy place. The kids enjoyed the privacy of the downstairs bedroom.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Marina B.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Beautiful mountain gateway

Great location , very clean house , loved the experience hiking around the house and felt very safe . The manager was very kind every time I needed . We got to the house late in the day which made hard to find it . Other than that no other issues . We definitely would stay again
Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Dagmar E.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great cabin

Everything about this cabin was excellent. We especially loved sitting on the front deck in the evening sun and spending time in the older, more historic part of the cabin with the old stone fireplace. The kitchen was well equipped. Art and decor showed great individual taste - we would have done it in a similar way! There is one en-suite bathroom for the bedroom to the left of the door and another bathroom accessible from the dining area that serves the rest of the cabin. That worked well for us.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2023
Verified

8/10 Good

Derek S.

Liked: Check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Disliked: Cleanliness

Lake Eden

Issues: the ceiling fans had cobwebs on them, the AC vents on the lower level had dust in them that was visible from afar, lightbulb out on lower level was out , attic access door in family room closet was wide open, key ring would not stay fastened so we replaced the ring so that we wouldn’t lose a key. Bright spots- Craig the property manager was great. Location to our extracurricular activities was great. Just Wished we knew ahead of time that we had no access to lake activities other than fishing.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023
Response from VrboOwner on 17 July 2023
Thank you for staying with us and providing the feedback which we passed forward to housekeeping to make sure they check the fans. It is part of their regular service to check bulbs but sorry we missed one. We keep a stockpile onsite whenever guests let us know of one that goes out. We did try to make clear the lake rules when you asked during the booking process but are sorry if somehow it wasn’t clear.
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Natasha S.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Black Mountain Getaway

Prof. Alber's House is a really cool place to stay. Very unique setting of the professor's house on an old wooded and meadowed college campus. I can only wonder what it was like in its heyday! The house was just as the photos show, everything was clean, neat, and organized. Lots of books to read. We had plenty of room and loved sitting on the back deck listening to nature. Leigh was very attentive to our needs, personally checking on us with Remy dog, batteries for the remote and having the lights on for our after-sundown arrival. In Black Mountain, numerous shops and restaurants and some live music. Looking forward to coming back to Lake Eden Retreat/Black Mountain College.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023
Verified

6/10 Okay

Allison1 N.

Liked: Check-in
Disliked: Location, listing accuracy

Property in poor condition

The property, while historic, was well past cabin shabby chic. The property is dilapidated and in need of a full renovation . The photos and price do not give a true representation of the dis-repair. The deck is rotting, baths are falling apart, doors are rotten and let in bugs. It has s potential, but truly should not have been up for rent in its current condition.
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2022
Response from VrboOwner on 1 Aug 2022
We are sorry this guest did not enjoy their stay. They did contact us via email about a bathroom faucet that had come loose which we apologized for and immediately sent a repair person to address. After multiple attempts to reach the guest again were not answered we were unaware of their dissatisfaction. The photos on this listing are all recent from within the last year but we will certainly take a close look at items mentioned to see if there are other repairs needed as none of our other recent guests have let us know of any issues and have not been identified during our regular walkthroughs and inspections. We care about our guest experience as our other 4 listings on this service all with many positive reviews hopefully relay.
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Karen T.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Fantastic Stay in the Mountains with Family

We had a wonderful stay at Albers Cottage, which was inviting and warm, nestled in the woods and we enjoyed the privacy. House had extremely sturdy furniture with colorful rugs and art abounded and in terms of that all was perfect and the wifi worked pretty good. The kids shared they would have liked a bigger tv. We enjoyed time with family and that we were able to dine at the huge table all together. We all struggled with finding the cabin and the map made sense once we knew the lay of the land, but to be fair part of the charm is that it is tucked out of the way. We would definitely stay here again or maybe in one of the glampers at Eden Resort. One thing I especially appreciated is that typically we stay at cabins and they offer starter toilet paper etc..but we had enough toilet paper and dishwashing supplies etc. for our trip provided. Even fatwood to start a fire and nice pots and pans were in the cabinets including cutting boards, which we enjoyed when we cooked up our freshly caught trout. Thank you again, Leah and Eden Resorts! We will be back!
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

debera f.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Awesome

Absolutely beautiful scenery and location. We had 5 adults and 2 children, and had plenty of space! Only issue I had was there are no smoke detectors or fire extinguishers, other than that it was a great place to stay!
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Kelly J.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Peek Mountain Stay

It was easy and had fun. You have plenty of viewing space and the fire pit was nice.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Teresa R.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

90th birthday

Beautiful place and great location. Because we had two 90 years old we had to pull up the area rugs. I have to admit I slipped on them too. But other than that we enjoyed the rocking chairs, the fire pit every night and the moonlight. This place is very clean and a wonderful place to have our small gathering. Thank you
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Debra L.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Family getaway

Nice home in the mountains. Quiet and peaceful. Enjoyed the campfire and making smores! Good memories made!
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Lynn H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great location, quiet, pro ate

Our family of three adults and three kids (11, 11, 15) and two dogs enjoyed the cabin, especially the bonfire pit.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2022

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