Hoover House Reading Book Reduced

“The Crossing”
the Hoover’s most ambitious and successful undertaking
The fill dirt provided the virtual foundation for one of the Hoover’s most ambitious and successful undertakings, “The Crossing.” In
1993, ten years after buying the tract, Tommy and Judi began rolling in old buildings that would make up a riverside dining, entertainment,
shopping, and B&B compound to augment the adjacent offerings of Main Street.
First up for the site came a 60x25-foot former mercantile building that had resided next to the railroad tracks at nearby Winchester
since 1905. It was sawed down the middle, hauled in two loads and gently maneuvered onto the newly filled site.
Reborn as a full-service restaurant and bar, dubbed “The Yacht Club,” the building’s long side was expanded with stepped decks to
offer diners premier river views. Inside, the walls and ceiling were decorated with “river funk.” Floating upside down above the bar was
a battered canoe, “spilling” its cargo of paddles, fishing poles, tackle boxes and an old ice chest.
Eight other structures make up the The Crossing complex including a couple of simple late-1800s and early-1900s farmhouses and
various shops created from such buildings as a former cotton gin weighing station, a one-room schoolhouse, an 1850s smokehouse, a
cabin used as a brothel behind a notorious bar and others brought from near and far. The rustic charm of The Crossing has attrac ed
many local and national film productions to its banks.
The Crossing
Bob Parvin captured our vision for “The Crossing”.
We used this sketch at various public meetings to
help people “see” what we saw as the end product.