JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Carnegie Hotel has landed on Newsweek's "Best Historical Hotel" Top 10 list — despite being less than a quarter-century old.

The hotel across from East Tennessee State University is inspired by Johnson City's original Carnegie, which was built in 1890 and burned to the ground in 1910, and manager Joel Dahlhauser said that helped put it into the elite category with icons such as Washington, D.C.'s Hay-Adams.

"We have many guests come and say, 'I can't believe how great a condition the hotel is in,' and you almost don't want to burst their bubble and say, 'you know, it wasn't built in 1890,'" Dahlhauser said Wednesday.

"We are an inspired property that was built in 2002, but man, it feels good when they do, because as the article said, the woods, the mahog

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