Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Downtown Asheville Historic District. / 35.59500°N 82.55333°W / 35.59500; -82.55333. Downtown Asheville Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses about 279 contributing buildings and one contributing object in the central business district of ...
Vance Monument. / 35.595083°N 82.551472°W / 35.595083; -82.551472. The Vance Monument was a late 19th-century granite obelisk in Asheville, North Carolina, that memorialized Zebulon Vance, a former North Carolina governor from the area. [ 1] The monument was designed by architect Richard Sharp Smith and was an "iconic landmark" and ...
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina.Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), the main residence, is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 [2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft (12,568 m 2 ...
Downtown Asheville's Art Deco Woolworth building was once the site of Civil Rights sit-ins. ... Simmons is a Western North Carolina native who at 17 was the first African American student to ...
April 26, 1996 (419 McDowell St. Asheville: 8: Asheville School: June 3, 1996 (Roughly bounded by Patton Ave., the former Southern railroad line, Interstate 40, Sand Hill Rd., and the Malvern Hills subdivision
Basilica of St. Lawrence, Asheville. The Minor Basilica of St. Lawrence the Deacon & Martyr is a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, United States. The church was designed and built in 1905 by Spanish architect Rafael Guastavino along with his fellow architect R. S. Smith and the Roman Catholic ...
The Thomas Wolfe House, also known as the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, is a state historic site, historic house and museum located at 52 North Market Street in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. The American author Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) lived in the home during his boyhood. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its ...
The Cathedral of All Souls, also referred to as All Souls Cathedral, is an Episcopal cathedral located in Asheville, North Carolina, United States of America.All Souls was built by George Washington Vanderbilt II, the grandson of railroad baron, Cornelius Vanderbilt, in 1896, to serve as the local parish church for Biltmore Village, which had been developed near his Biltmore Estate, [2] and ...