During the Christmas season of 2003, author Gloria Houston gave the rights to her award-winning children’s book, The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree, to the small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

From that original idea, the Home of the Perfect Christmas Tree project was born. With entrepreneurial development for Mitchell County as a primary focus, the project has created 80 individual small businesses that produce quality, handmade products as part of the Home of the Perfect Christmas Tree collection. Shop Our Store.
Home of the Perfect Christmas Tree: Now Open in Two Locations - The Shoppes at Little Switzerland and on Oak Street in downtown Spruce Pine, NC.
The Home of the Perfect Christmas Tree collection now features over 300 high quality products by nearly 80 product makers from eight mountain counties.
The project also serves as a scholarship tool, with a portion of royalties received from product sales used to fund a scholarship program to combat the alarmingly low student retention rate at Mitchell High School, the only high school in the county.
Home of the Perfect Christmas Tree
Store
262 Oak Street
Spruce Pine, NC 28777
828-765-0571
www.homeoftheperfectchristmastree.org