The owners of a new multifaceted business plans to open its doors this summer in Black Mountain.
Once opened, Peri Social House will be part coffee shop, part craft beer shop and part boutique hotel, according to co-owner Kathryn Rudisill. She owns the business with her husband, Trevor Rudisill.
Kathryn Rudisill said the word “peri” means “mountain dweller,” and the business will take inspiration from the word.
“We’re kind of leaning into the mountain boho feel with a traveler’s spin,” Kathryn Rudisill said. “Whether you live here and you’re a permanent mountain dweller or you’re just dwelling for the weekend, we hope it will be a spot for both.”
She and her husband spent a year traveling in 2018, spending five months in Southeast Asia and fell in love with the region. Kathryn Rudisill said even though they were not working at the time, they were always brainstorming business ideas.
“It always kind of came down to some sort of hostel with some sort of community beer shop vibe,” Kathryn Rudisill said. “We feel like it’s something that’s always been in the back of our heads.”
With a capacity to sleep 14 people, the Rudisills are calling Peri Social House “the smallest boutique hotel in North Carolina.”
The Rudisill’s also own Gold River Camp and Cabins, a glamping campground in Marion, where the couple lives with their two children. The campground is an old gem panning operation. Kathryn Rudisill said this venture is what got the couple into the hospitality business.
“We love it,” Kathryn Rudisill said. “We’ve hosted people from Honduras, Ecuador. We just hosted people from New Zealand, but then we also host people from literally 2 miles down the road. It’s really cool to see all walks of life. People are in a good mood when they’re traveling, so generally for the most part you get to be a part of their great experiences. We’ve found a passion for it.”
The building that will host Peri Social House is undergoing major renovations to get ready for a planned summer opening. The Rudisill’s partnered with Atriax Group based in Hickory for the architecture and design portion of the project.
Though the building has been the home of several different ventures in its history, it was most recently the home of the Wild Hare event venue before the Rudisills purchased it in 2022.
Trevor Rudisill said one of the reasons he fell in love with the building is because of its different nooks and crannies.
“We always found the places that we thought were the neatest to hang out was always a place where you would walk around and there’d just been all these neat new things, new places to sit, new places to have a drink or hide away from people,” Trevor Rudisill said. “We did like this place a lot because this seems like everywhere, outside or inside, there’s just a new compartment.”
Once completed, the project will include the coffee and craft beer shops, the boutique hotel, as well as a sunroom and porch for events and a fenced in outdoor space. A semi-permanent food truck is also a possibility, according to the owners. A small gift shop that will focus on local vendors will also be in the building.
Kathryn Rudisill said she wants Peri Social House to be a place that helps instill the sense of community she already sees in Black Mountain.
“One of the things that we bring into Black Mountain is even more collaboration with other business,” Kathryn Rudisill said. “I know people are really good about doing it and I see it more and more as we’re getting more integrated into the community, but this is going to be a fun spot where we have opportunities like local craft beers on tap.”
She said it is important for her to create a space that visitors and locals alike can come to “relax and rejuvenate” while also creating a family-friendly environment.
“We’re really looking forward to bringing a space that families can connect without having to stress at the same time,” Kathryn Rudisill said. “It goes back to that whole post-COVID thing of people finally getting back out and I think people are more eager than ever now to meet up and to go out and do different things. We just want to be a space that makes it easy on them.”
Peri Social House is located at 406 W. State St. and is scheduled to open this summer.
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Karrigan Monk is the Swannanoa Valley communities reporter for Black Mountain News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at kmonk@blackmountauinnews.com.
