Manufacturer: Syracuse China, Shenango China
Name of users: Fairyland Inn / Fleetwood of Fairyland Inn / Fairyland Club
Date of Shenango sauce boat or gravy: 1925-1930s
Date of Syracuse bowl: 1927
Date of Syracuse plate: 1929
Date of Syracuse creamer: unknown
Notes: This design, with its winged spright sitting on a mushroom and playing what looks like the bloom of a calla lily as horn, has long been thought to be associated with the Fairyland destinations near Chattanooga, Tenn., especially because numerous pieces have been sold nearby. But it is a June 8, 1925, ad in The Chattanooga News that effectively ties this Fairyland – the Fairyland Inn – and the Wright Co.'s backstamp on the Shenango pieces, to this location. As shown above, the Wright Co.'s ad for the inn's opening touts "Special designs in china and silver, which grace the tables of the inn, also add their particular charm to this unique and very lovely hostelry."
Technically located on Lula Lake Road on Lookout Mountain, Georgia, Fairyland is less than a 20-minute drive from Chattanooga.
After opening in June 1925, the Fairyland Inn, which was owned by Garnet and Frieda Carter (who also developed Rock City Gardens and gave the world the second miniature golf course), was quickly sold in late July to Commodore J. Perry Stoltz, with plans, according to a story (shown above) in The New York Times' July 29, 1925 issue, to "commence the erection of a $2,000,000 hotel, which he promises will surpass any hostelry in this section of the country." The owner of Miami's Fleetwood Hotel, Stoltz planned to name the new hotel "Fleetwood of Fairyland. … The original Fairyland Inn will be a unit and will be incorporated in the new building, which will be fifteen stories high, with a roof garden, to have a seating capacity of 1,500 with a sliding roof."
By 1926, the inn had become the Fairyland Club that apparently closed during the Depression and reopened in 1934.
It should be noted that the same topmarked china was ordered for both the initial Fairyland Inn and later – based on its 1927 and 1929 backstamps – for the Fairyland Club.
From the Wikipedia, the Fairyland Club is now listed on the National Register of Historic places and is said to have early on included a main clubhouse and 10 cottages. "The clubhouse has a tower and crenelations and 65 rooms. The cottages were each two-story and had six or more rooms. Its grounds had the world's second miniature golf course."
Still in operation (2025), the facility is now the Lookout Mountain Club.
Sources:
The Chattanooga News, Wright Co. ad, June 8, 1925
The New York Times, July 29, 1925 issue – purchase by Stolz
Chattanooga Daily Times, Plans by the Fairyland Company for Fairyland, Oct. 4, 1925
Chattanoogan.com, 2016 history of Fairyland Club
Chattanooga Public Library, Circa 1928 photo
Chattanooga Public Library, Circa 1925 entrance to Fleetwood of Fairyland Inn
Chattanooga Public Library, A reference to name change from Fairyland Inn to Fairyland Club, a social club
Wikipedia
Lookout Mountain Club, Current iteration of Fairyland Club
Contributors
Carol Cardona: creamer photos
Jacob Irwin: gravy photos