Tryon Toy House
Constructed 1925 as retail showroom and office for Tryon Toy Makers and Wood Carvers, famous craft enterprise founded by Charlotte Yale and Eleanor Vance in 1915. Designed by Tryon architect J. Foster Searles to evoke the European inspiration for distinctive style of Tryon toys and woodcraft. Eleanor Roosevelt delivered her Fourth of July speech in 1934 from the front terrace.
Marker is at the intersection of North Trade Street (U.S. 176) and East Howard Street, on the right when traveling north on North Trade Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
