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Montford Area Historic District

Few neighborhoods express the rich architectural heritage and vitality of Asheville better than the Montford Historic District. During an era of remarkable growth in Asheville and in an environment of a few powerful individuals with enormous personal wealth, Montford grew ...

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Princess Anne Hotel

The three-story Princess Anne Hotel was built by registered nurse Anne O'Connell in 1922. The hotel played an important role in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood. Asheville was known as the Nation's most famous location for the treatment of tuberculosis and ...

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Von Ruck House

The Karl Von Ruck House, home of an internationally known pioneer in pulmonary medicine, is associated with perhaps the greatest era in Asheville medicine. Dr. Von Ruck was a dedicated scientist, medical researcher and a believer in the "climate theory" ...

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Chestnut Hill Historic District

The Chestnut Hill Historic District is a compact late 19th- and early 20th-century residential neighborhood that began as the outskirts of frontier Asheville. Some buildings were erected in this area even before Asheville underwent its first growth spurt in the ...

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Manor and Cottages (Albemarle Park)

The Manor and Cottages compose a picturesque small historic district, evocative of Asheville's dramatic turn-of-the-century resort town boom era. The Manor, a resort with an English inn atmosphere conceived by Thomas Wadley Raoul and his father William Greene Raoul, was ...

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St. Mary's Church

This small, but unusual church in north Asheville incorporates both architectural and theological significance for the community. The church and its founding Vestry were a part of the “Oxford Movement” establishing the Anglo-Catholic church (the “High Church”), started in England ...

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Dr. Carl V. Reynolds House

The Dr. Carl Von Reynolds House, situated near the foot of Sunset Mountain in North Asheville, was built by Reynolds for his family in 1909. The imposing, porticoed residence was one of the first built in Proximity Park and is ...

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Biltmore Industries, Inc.

Biltmore Industries is associated with the lives, work, and ideals of Mr. and Mrs. George Vanderbilt and Fred L. Seely, all leading figures of twentieth-century Asheville. The industries were established in 1901 under the patronage of George Vanderbilt and direction ...

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Richmond Hill House

The Richmond Hill House is located northwest of Asheville on a bluff high above the French Broad River. The Victorian mansion was built in 1889 as the private residence of ambassador and Congressman Richmond Pearson. Considered one of the most ...

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Weaverville United Methodist Church

Methodism in the Reems Creek Valley of north central Buncombe County has a rich history dating to 1805 when pioneer John Weaver built a log Methodist meeting house on a ridge overlooking his cabin and farm. From 1919 to 1920, ...

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