The historic Mountain View Inn & Conference Center on Route 30 in Westmoreland County will close at the end of the week.

An employee said today a press release was being prepared outlining the decision, and he referred further questions to owner Vance Booher, who was not immediately available for comment. The reservations center for the 89-room inn, opened in 1924, was accepting no requests for rooms beyond Saturday night.

Brides and events planners who had reserved future dates at Mountain View began scrambling in recent days to rearrange their affairs.

"The phone has been ringing off the hook booking business," said Steve Mitchell, general manager of the Four Points by Sheraton in Greensburg. "We're receiving phone calls from brides and other clients that were tentatively booked there, or booked there, and that were informed they're closing."

The hotel midway between Latrobe and Greensburg has been in the Booher family since 1940. It has handled 100 weddings a year in the past.

More details in tomorrow's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.