<p>The Rochester Commercial and Industrial District encompasses the civic, commercial, and industrial heart of Rochester, New Hampshire. Oriented around the citys Central Square, the 6 acre district includes the citys major civic buildings, most of which are Classical Revival structures from the early 20th century, a number of commercial buildings dating as far back as the square&#39;s formation in the 1820s, and several late 19th-century industrial facilities. The district extends primarily along Main Street, from Bridge and Union Streets to Winter and Academy Streets, and includes properties extending along Wakefield and Hanson Streets, as well as other adjacent streets. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Rochester was chartered as a town in 1722, but substantive colonial settlement did not take place until conflicts with Native Americans subsided in the mid-18th century. The town was a center for lumber trade, and became a transportation hub, with the intersection of two stagecoach routes at what is now Central Square. In the 19th century it developed as a center of the textile and shoe industries, contributing to the states nationwide prominence in the latter industry at the end of the century. Between 1797 and 1840 it was the county seat of Strafford County. The introduction of the railroad in 1849 continued the citys importance in transportation.</p><br>
<p>The citys downtown is largely a product of late 19th and early 20th-century development, although there are surviving elements representative of its earlier importance. A few residences and commercial buildings dating to the 1820s are found on North Main Street, northwest of Central Square, interspersed with later 19th-century and modern infill. The Central Square area, the junction of North Main, South Main, and Wakefield Streets, is ringed with late 19th and early 20th-century commercial buildings, mostly of brick construction. Civic and religious buildings are also found along Main Street, including a courthouse, city hall, and churches. The citys 19th-century industrial heritage is remembered in the four-story factory building of E.W. Wallace, its major shoe manufacturer, at 100 South Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The Salmon Falls Mill Historic District encompasses a historic mill complex on Front Street in Rollinsford, New Hampshire. The complex includes four major structures and seven smaller ones, on about 14 acre of land along the Salmon Falls River. They were built between about 1840 and the mid-1860s, and have an unusual architectural unity, for additions made to the buildings were done with attention to matching design elements from the existing structures. The Number 2 Mill, built in 1848, was an early location where a turbine was used instead of a waterwheel to provide power to the mill machinery. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now Rollinsford was settled in the 1620s, and the site of the present Salmon Mills complex has a documented history of industrial use since 1623-24, when the Salmon Falls River was first dammed and a sawmill built. In 1822 the water privilege was purchased by a Portsmouth merchant, who established a successful woolen mill. It burned in 1834, but was soon replaced by a cotton mill. That mill was eventually purchased by a partnership including Amos Lawrence, a major Boston, Massachusetts textile industrialist. Eventually incorporated as the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company, Lawrence and his associates built a new mill (the present Number 2 building), and introduced new technology perfected at Lowell, Massachusetts including the turbine. A fire in 1864 destroyed the original Number 1 mill. The Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company ended production in 1927, and the buildings have since seen other industrial uses.</p><br>
<p>The historic district consists of eleven buildings and structures, most of which are set between Front Street and the river. The concrete dam spanning the river, built as a replacement of a wooden dam around 1910, is included in the district, as is the railroad bridge just downstream. One building, a cotton warehouse, is located across Front Street. The buildings exhibit a remarkable unity of style despite a construction history spanning more than 50 years, with most buildings built of brick in an industrial Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>The "Doc" Thomas House is a national historic site located at 5530 Sunset Dr., just east of South Miami, Florida in Miami-Dade County. Completed in 1932, it was the residence of Arden Hayes Thomas, who had moved to Dade County from Indiana to open a drug store in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Thomas deeded the house and almost 2.2 acres of wooded property to Tropical Audubon Society in 1974. After his death on December 31, 1975, Tropical Audubon Society acquired the property; it has served as the organization&#39;s headquarters and a community resource since April, 1976. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 13, 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Browns Ferry vessel is a shipwrecked colonial vessel. Based on an analysis of artifacts found on the wreck, it sank sometime between 1730 and 1740 in the Black River, near a place known as Browns Ferry, which is in the general vicinity of Georgetown, South Carolina. The ship was apparently a merchant cargo vessel, and was not obviously associated with the ferry operation. At the time of its discovery, the wrecked vessel was judged to provide a unique view into the shipbuilding industry of the southern British colonies of North America. The ship was more than 50 ft in length and 14 ft wide. It had a 3 ft hold, a draft of 2&#39;10", and an estimated capacity of 30 tons. It was built of oak, pine, and cypress planking. She had a flat bottom and no keel. When she sank her principal cargo was a load of bricks.</p><br>
<p>The vessel was excavated and raised in 1976, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is now on display at the Rice Museum in Georgetown.</p><br>
<p>Sunshine State Arch is a national historic site located at the intersection between NW 13th Ave. and NW 167th St., at the entrance to the Sunshine State Industrial Park  in Miami Gardens, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA. It was inspired by the monumental Gateway Arch in St. Louis. The Sunshine State Arch was finished in 1964, three years before the Gateway Arch. It was designed by Walter C. Harry.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Owen Building, known more recently as the Bruce Building, is a historic office building at 1321 Lady Street in Columbia, South Carolina. It is an eight-story concrete structure which was built in 1949 around the core of an older two-story brick building. It was designed by Lafaye, Lafaye, and Fair for local businessman Frank Owen, and was the first skyscraper built in the city after World War II. Its primary tenant for many years was Southern Bell Telephone Company, who in 1961 constructed an annex to the building to house computer equipment. It was purchased by the Seibels Bruce Insurance Company, another major tenant, in 1980. The building exterior has been relatively little-altered since its construction, and it retains some of its early internal features, including a period mail chute.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Sherrill&#39;s Inn is a historic home located near Fairview, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It is a four bay by two bay, log house of the saddle-bag variety which has been raised to two stories and weatherboarded. Attached to it is an originally separate two-story, log building, two bays wide and two bays deep. Also on the property are a contributing stone spring house and log meathouse. The building was built about 1845, and used as an inn throughout much of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>Young Men&#39;s Institute Building, also known as the YMI Building, is a historic meeting hall located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Richard Sharp Smith and built in 1892–1893. It is a -story, pebbledash coated masonry building with brick, stone, and wood accents. From its early days, the YMI building has housed shops, residence rooms, meeting rooms, and a wide variety of functions serving the African American community of Asheville. The building was restored and reestablished as the YMI Cultural Center in 1980, and now hosts a variety of intercultural programs and events. It is located in the Downtown Asheville Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The YMI was built after African American leaders Mr. Isaac Dickson and Dr. Edward S. Stephens originally approached George Vanderbilt in 1892 to commission the building for the African American men who helped build the Biltmore Estate. While living in Asheville, Dr. Stephens was frustrated with racial discrimination he witnessed and the perception from white Asheville residents that black people were not capable of being self-reliant or assuming the responsibilities of citizenship. George Vanderbilt and his estate superintendent Charles McNamee agreed to fund the YMI and provide an opportunity for black leaders to "demonstrate their ability to learn the art of self-government." In providing funding to the YMI, Vanderbilt&#39;s goal was to test whether the YMI could achieve financial solvency, and thereby show that the black community could self-govern. Economic self sufficiency was challenging to the black community in Asheville, however, in these post-civil war years, as they faced discrimination and wage disparity in the service sector jobs available.</p><br>
<p>The YMI was designed to serve as a multipurpose space, with meeting spaces, a library and reading room, and a gymnasium. Programming in its early days included lectures by prominent African Americans, as well as musical and dramatic performances. A musical chorus and orchestra were formed early on, and YMI officials also sought to bring performers from the wider regional and national arts scene to the area, succeeding in attracting Elizabeth Davis, Joseph Douglass, and "Queen of Song" Flora Batson in 1895. Entrepreneurial activities were also supported in the space: the outside ground floor was dedicated as retail and business space for black-owned businesses. Rent from businesses was intended to defray expenses, contribute to payment of the loan from the building&#39;s construction, and make the YMI financially self-sustaining.</p><br>
<p>In June 1906, the YMI&#39;s Board of Directors purchased the building from the Vanderbilt Estate for $10,000. The YMI continued to flourish during the period of segregation, but suffered decline in use during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1980, a coalition of nine black churches purchased the building and reestablished it as the YMI Cultural Center.</p><br>
<p>The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The YMI Cultural Center continues both to provide a home for local businesses and to host a variety of cultural programs and exhibitions of art and artifacts in order to preserve the heritage of African Americans in Buncombe County. Permanent exhibitions feature African masks and sculpture, drawings by the African-American artist Charles W. White, and a photographs that highlight the history of the YMI and its ties to the building and history of Biltmore Estate.</p><br>
<p>Ravenscroft School, also known as Chateau Nollman, is a historic school building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The oldest section was built about 1845, and is a two- to three-story brick building in the Greek Revival style. It consists of a squat, three-story, pyramidal-roofed tower with projecting two-story rectangular wings. The building has a number of later additions including a two-story brick wing and two-story frame wing. It was originally built as a residence, and housed a school from 1856 to the turn of the 20th century. It was used as a boarding or rooming house until 1977. The building is currently used as office space.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is located in the Downtown Asheville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>E. D. Latta Nurses&#39; Residence is a historic residential building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1929, and is a three-story, 11-bay, L-shaped brick building in the Colonial Revival style. The central five bays form a slightly projecting pavilion with pediment. It features a shallow Tuscan order portico at the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Schoenberger Hall was a historic residential building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1887, and was a 2 1/2-story, brick dwelling. It featured an Eastlake-detailed wraparound verandah and a slate-shingled mansard roof. The building was the former home of the Ravenscroft Associate Missions and Training School of the North Carolina Episcopal Diocese and the former residence of the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina. The building has been demolished.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Buncombe County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Frank Pierce Milburn and built between 1924 and 1928. It is a 17-story, steel frame skyscraper sheathed in brick and ashlar veneer. It features complex setbacks and an extravagant overlay of Neo-Classical Revival ornament.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the Downtown Asheville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Clarence Barker Memorial Hospital is a historic hospital building located at Biltmore Village, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Richard Sharp Smith and built in 1907. It is a -story, pebbledash finished building with a full-width verandah.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It was named after the late cousin of Biltmore Estate owner George Washington Vanderbilt II.</p><br>
<p>Biltmore–Oteen Bank Building is a historic bank building located at Biltmore Village, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built between 1925 and 1930, and is a two-story, brick building with Colonial Revival / Georgian Revival design details. It is a thin, wedge-shaped building featuring concrete detail and Doric order type pilasters.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Southern Railway Passenger Depot is a historic train station located at Biltmore Village, Asheville, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt and built in 1896 for the Southern Railway. It is a one-story symmetrical structure with a low hipped roof, central porte cochere, wide overhanging eaves, half-timbering, and a pebbledash finish.</p><br>
<p>The station replaced a smaller building that preceded Cornelius Vanderbilt&#39;s purchase of land to comprise the Biltmore Estate.</p><br>
<p>The Southern Railway Depot on Depot St. in Asheville was closed in 1968 due to costs and was demolished in early 1969. After this the Biltmore station served as Asheville&#39;s station until passenger train service was discontinued in early August of 1975. The station now houses a restaurant. If passenger service to Asheville is restored, a new station will be built.</p><br>
<p>The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Biltmore Estate Office is a historic office building located at Biltmore Village, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt and built in 1896. It is a 1 1/2-story pebbledash finished building with a hipped roof, half-timbering, brick trim, and chamfered and bracketed porch posts.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Biltmore Village Commercial Buildings is a set of two historic commercial buildings located at Biltmore Village, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. They were designed by architect Richard Sharp Smith and built about 1900. Included is a 1 1/2-story pebbledash finished building with a gable roof and half-timbering and a small one-story building that originally housed the Biltmore Village Post Office.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Biltmore Industries, Inc., also known as Biltmore Homespun Shops, is a historic industrial complex located adjacent to the Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, now known as Grovewood Village. Biltmore Industries was started by Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale, missionaries who moved to Asheville, NC in 1901. The complex of seven buildings were built about 1917 by Fred Loring Seely, and are constructed of hollow ceramic tile with stuccoed exterior wall surfaces. The buildings are The Eleanor Vance Building , Charlotte Yale Building , Carding and Spinning Building ,  Weavers&#39; Building  , Boiler House , Gatehouse , and Guardhouse . The complex produced high-quality crafts and fine hand-woven wool cloth.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dr. Rodney Swope, rector of All Souls Church, had come to Asheville in 1896 at the request of George Vanderbilt to serve as a spiritual leader for the community. Teacher and woodcarver Eleanor Vance and weaver Charlotte Yale came to Asheville in 1901. Because the boys showed an interest in the womens work, Swope asked that they become a part of the churchs mission. George Vanderbilts wife Edith moved the club to a better location at Biltmore Plaza. The Girls Club and Boys Club formed Biltmore Estate Industries in 1905, selling chairs, picture frames, boxes and baskets. Children did the work in the afternoon for pay. Vance and Yale moved to Tryon, North Carolina in 1914 after George Vanderbilts death, and Fred Seely bought the company from Edith Vanderbilt in 1917, changing the name to Biltmore Industries and moving it closer to Grove Park Inn. The company mostly did weaving, and each visitor was given a sample of cloth. Seely claimed Helen Keller wore his fabric because she had been given fabric when she visited.</p><br>
<p>Seely died in March 1942. His wife, Evelyn Grove Seely (daughter of Edwin Wiley Grove by his first wife, sweet Mary Louisa), became the owner of the complex. This was during World War II and it was difficult to find able-bodied workers to work in the wool industry. Fred Seely, Jr. was off in the war but took the reins of the family business when he came back from the war duties. Fred ran the business until 1953 when Mrs. Evelyn Seely died. Fred then began to sell off property. One man, Mr. Harry Blomberg, wanted to purchase a still from housed on the property. Seely said the only way to buy the still was to buy the whole complex of Biltmore Industries. The deal was made and Mr. Blomberg had a new endeavor. Blomberg was a major entrepreneur in Asheville, starting with a gasoline service station, and opened a Cadillac/Pontiac dealership, still open as "Harry&#39;s on the Hill" in West Asheville.</p><br>
<p>Blomberg converted the weaver building to an antique car museum and brought all of his antique cars from all over Asheville and put them on display for the public. However the shop continued to make homespun cloth well into the 1970s. He also made a museum for the Homespun Industry. These are still in operation today, now known as Grovewood Village. There is also a fine artist gallery on site. This is the world renowned Grovewood Gallery. Sherry Masters was in charge of the gallery for over 20 years. Also, there are several artists in residence that produce items such as high quality flutes, jewelry, glass and pottery works. Blombergs grandson, Harry "Buddy" Patton, and his aunt (Blombergs daughter) Barbara, are now the owners of the complex.</p><br>
<p>Manor and Cottages is a historic resort complex and national historic district located in the Albemarle Park neighborhood in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The complex encompassed 36 contributing buildings that were built starting in 1898. The main hotel, The Manor, was built starting in 1898–1899, and consists of a rambling group of interconnected wings with elements of the Colonial Revival, Shingle Style, and Tudor Revival styles. Wings were added to the original building in 1903 and 1913–1914. Located on the property are the contributing Club House  and a 19 guest cottages built between 1899 and 1920. The hotel was later converted for use as a retirement hotel for elderly persons with limited incomes.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Biltmore Village Cottage District is a national historic district located in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing residential buildings in Biltmore Village. They were designed by Richard Sharp Smith and built about 1900 for George W. Vanderbilt. The dwellings are 1 1/2- to two-story, pebbledash finished half-timbered cottages with recessed porches, multiple gables, steeply pitched roofs, simple molded trim, one or more brick chimneys, and brick foundations.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Chestnut Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 238 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Asheville. It was developed in the late-19th and early-20th century and includes Colonial Revival, Queen Anne-influenced, and bracketed Victorian style dwellings. At least eight of the houses were designed by architect Richard Sharp Smith.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Grove Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 290 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a predominantly residential section Asheville. The planned suburban community was originally platted and developed in 1908-1913 and 1914. It includes representative examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow style dwellings. The community was laid out by noted landscape architect Chauncey Beadle. The Kimberly Amendment to Grove Park was an expansion made to the original Grove Park development in 1923. It includes the former Asheville Country Club, now the Grove Park Inn Country Club.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, with a boundary increase in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Clingman Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompassed 33 contributing buildings in a historically African-American residential section of Asheville. It was largely developed in the early-20th century and includes representative examples of Queen Anne and Bungalow style dwellings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Sunset Terrace Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses nine contributing buildings in a residential section of Asheville. The property was developed after 1913, and includes representative examples of Tudor Revival and Bungalow style dwellings. Notable dwellings include the Rosemary Cottage , Primrose Cottage , Rambler Cottage , Westview Cottage , and Violet Cottage .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Norwood Park Historic District is a national historic district of Asheville, North Carolina. The district encompasses 154 contributing buildings and one contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Asheville. The district was largely developed in the first three decades of the 20th century, and includes representative examples of Colonial Revival and Bungalow-style dwellings.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Proximity Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 62 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a predominantly residential section of Asheville. The district was largely developed in early-20th century, and includes representative examples of Colonial Revival, Mission Revival, and Bungalow style dwellings. Located in the district is the separately listed St. Mary&#39;s Church  and rectory  designed by architect Richard Sharp Smith.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Riverside Industrial Historic District, also known as Asheville Wholesale District, is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 27 contributing buildings and one contributing structure  in a predominantly industrial section of Asheville. Notable buildings include the Orpheus and Bertha Keener House , American Feed Milling Company , Italianate style Carolina Coal & Ice Company , Asheville Cotton Mill Cloth Warehouse , Standard Oil Company complex , and Farmers Federation Building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>In 2024, the area was hit by flooding caused by Hurricane Helene, causing major damage.</p><br>
<p>Eliada Home is a national historic district located near Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district originally encompassed 10 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites associated with a youth home complex in suburban Asheville. Of the original 10, only 5 remain. They included the early residential, administrative, and agricultural buildings of the home as well as a residence, a tabernacle site, a log guest cabin, and a cemetery. The primary buildings were the Main Building  and the Allred Cottage . The buildings included representative examples of the Colonial Revival, Bungalow, Bungalow/craftsman, and Tudor Revival styles.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>In February 2021, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services ordered Eliada Home to shut down two of its cottages for high-risk teenagers, stating those cottages were "an imminent danger to the health, safety and welfare of the clients and that emergency action is required to protect the clients</p><br>
<p>Municipal Golf Course, also known as Buncombe County Golf Course, is a historic golf course and national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses one contributing building ) and one contributing site associated with a course designed by Donald Ross and opened in 1927. The Municipal Golf Course was the first municipal course in North Carolina to be racially integrated.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Oteen Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District is a historic hospital complex and national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 18 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure associated with the Veterans Administration hospital at Asheville. They were built between 1924 and 1940, and include white frame Colonial Revival and massive yellow stucco Georgian Revival structures. Notable buildings include the Administration Building , Wards A and B , Wards C and D , Wards E and F , Kitchen  and Dining Hall , Officers Quarters , and Nurses Dormitories . In 1967, a new Asheville, VA Medical Center complex was built adjacent to the original.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Ottari Sanitarium, also known as the Coburn Apartments, is a historic building complex located at 491 Kimberly Avenue in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The original section was built in 1912, and now forms the east end of the building. It is a three-story, stuccoed brick building with a hipped roof. It was enlarged in 1923, with the addition of a three-story, 14 bay brick addition, connected to the original building by a two-story section. The building was converted to apartments in 1937.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Ottari Sanitarium (named for nearby Ottari Rd.) was built in 1912 by Dr. William Banks Meacham, a doctor of Osteopathy. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Asheville area was known as a health resort. It was believed that the fresh mountain air could alleviate lung diseases such as tuberculosis. When the facility opened in 1912 there were rooms and suites (with open porches) for eighteen patients. An additional twenty rooms were built in 1923.</p><br>
<p>In a 1917 letter published in Osteopathic Truth, Dr. M.J. Carson of the described the sanitarium:...Building fire-proof, interior trim white, glass knobs to doors, each room with private tiled bath, "anatomic" closet seats of non-stainable ivory; cross transom ventilation, door and two windows opening on private screened porch. Call bells in each room, indirect lighting, furniture and rugs of private home and not like hotel or hospital. Meals served individually by maids, nurses and butler dressed in white, with dainty china and neat silver..."By the end of the 1920s, Dr. Meacham found himself financially overextended, and the sanitarium closed in 1930. The City of Asheville and the Buncombe County Commission acquired the property in 1933, and arranged with a local realtor to convert it into apartments. The Kimberly Apartments opened in 1937. In 1940 the apartments were sold to Harry Cutler Coburn, who renamed the complex the Coburn Apartments. The building remains in apartment use in 2020.</p><br>
<p>Biltmore Hospital, also known as the Biltmore Hospital Extension and Memorial Mission Hospital, is a historic hospital building located at Biltmore Village, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1929–1930, and originally known as the Battle Wing to the Clarence Barker Memorial Hospital. It is a four-story, 13 bay by 3 bay, brick and stone building with a flat roof and Tudor Revival style design elements. A two-story wing was completed in 1953 for the Imperial Life Insurance Company. Also on the property are contributing culverts and a sign.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Claxton School is a historic school building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1922–1925, and is a three-story, Neoclassical school building constructed of hollow clay tile. It is faced with cast concrete stone veneer. The original two-story auditorium is located at the rear of the building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Buncombe County Boys&#39; Training School is a historic school building located near Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1927–1928, and is a two-story, granite and brick main building in the Tudor Revival style. It consists of three principal sections with a two-story, rear ell containing the kitchen and other service areas. The school was permanently closed in 1945, and the building was reopened in 1947 as the new County Home for the Aged. Since 1983, the building has housed an Army National Guard training center.</p><br>
<p>The building was renovated around 2006 and today, houses Buncombe County&#39;s Emergency Services and Operations Center</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Spinning Wheel is a historic commercial building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1939, and is a one-story, "T" -shaped commercial building with three primary components. It consists of the side-gabled, single-pen log dwelling; a small frame hyphen called the dogtrot; and a frame "loom room". A cement block extension was added in 1945. The building was restored in 1998. The Spinning Wheel operated from 1939 to 1948 and provided education, employment, socialization, and a craft market for the traditional weaving women from the mountains around Asheville.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Bledsoe Building is a historic commercial building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1927, and is a two-story, trapezoid-shape brick structure. It consists of three distinct sections; a central portion and flanking east and west wings. The building houses many retail services, offices, and residential rentals rooms.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It is located in the West Asheville End of Car Line Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Biltmore Hardware Building is a historic commercial building located at Biltmore Village, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1923, and is a two-story, rectangular brick structure, with a one-story wing added in 1927. It has a central doorway flanked by storefronts. It was the home of Biltmore Hardware, a business that existed in Biltmore Village from about 1936 to 2000.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The State Theater is an art deco-style theater in Clovis, New Mexico, which opened in 1936. It is still in use, although today it presents live musical acts rather than movies. It is one of three historic movie theaters in Clovis. The centerpiece of the marquee is a tall, vertical, cylindrical glass brick column.</p><br>
<p>In 2007 the theater, at 504 Main Street, was added to both the State and National Register of Historic Places listings in New Mexico (SR#1899, NRHP # 355920). It is one of two historic movie theaters in Clovis that are on the NRHP, the other being the Lyceum Theater at 409 Main Street. The nomination of the theater as part of the Clovis Railroad and Commercial Historic District includes the description of the State Theater by historian David Kammer as “the most richly detailed example of a modernistic style theater façade in New Mexico.”</p><br>
<p>Bent Creek Campus of the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station is a national historic district located near Asheville, in the Appalachian Mountains, Buncombe County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The district encompasses 16 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure associated with the Bent Creek Experimental Forest of the Pisgah National Forest.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The campus has two sections:</p><br>
<p>west section centered on an insectary and a garage dating to 1925–1928.</p><br>
<p>east section with laboratories, insectaries, residences, and auxiliary buildings dating to 1931–1934.</p><br>
<p>The buildings are typically one-story high (often with basement or garret stories), of frame construction in the Rustic Style.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, with a boundary decrease in 1996.</p><br>
<p>West Asheville End of Car Line Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 24 contributing buildings in a primarily commercial section of West Asheville. It includes a nearly continuous row of one and two-story brick and concrete block commercial buildings that date from 1916 through the mid-1930s. Their development was influenced by streetcar service along the Haywood Road corridor that operated from 1910 to 1934. Notable buildings include the separately listed Bledsoe Building, along with the Isis Theater , Franklin Building , Pure Oil Station , Wells Building , Palace Theater , Great A&P Tea Company , and West Asheville Post Office .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>West Asheville–Aycock School Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings in a commercial and institutional section of West Asheville. It includes one and two-story brick civic and commercial buildings, dating from about 1915 to 1936. Their development was influenced by streetcar service along the Haywood Road corridor that operated from 1910 to 1934. Notable buildings contributing to the historic district include the McGeachy Filling Station , Buckner Building , West Asheville Fire Station , Charles B. Aycock School , West Asheville Bank and Trust Company , DeLuxe Barber Shop , and Universal Motors .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Gunston Hall, also known as Franklin Hall, is a historic estate and a national historic district located at Biltmore Forest, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses five contributing buildings, one contributing site, and two contributing structures. The main house was designed by architect Waddy Butler Wood and built in 1923. It is a five-part Colonial Revival style dwelling consisting of a -story main block flanked by hyphens and -story wings. The grounds were designed by noted landscape architects Chauncey Beadle and Lola Anderson Dennis. Other contributing elements are the Grounds and Garden , the Breezeway , Gazebo , Tool Shed/Potting Shed , Greenhouse , Garden Shed , and Entrance Piers and Gates . The estate was built by Dr. William Beverley Mason, a great-great grandson of George Mason, who built Gunston Hall .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 but is now a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The Rafael Guastavino Sr. Estate, also known as Rhododendron, is a historic estate and a national historic district located near Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses three contributing sites and three contributing structures associated with the former estate of the noted Spanish-born architectural engineer Rafael Guastavino. Although the house was razed</p><br>
<p>in the late 1940s, the property includes above-ground ruins and landscaping, the ruins of Guastavino&#39;s tile kiln and its brick stack. Other contributing elements are a section of stone wall, a vaulted hillside cellar (traditionally known as the wine cellar), the exposed foundation ruins of the</p><br>
<p>house, and earthworks. The estate was Guastavino&#39;s principal residence for the last 14 years of his life. The property is now, the conference and retreat center of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Intheoaks, also known as In-the-oaks, is a historic estate and a national historic district located at Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses nine contributing buildings, two contributing sites, seven contributing structures, and four contributing objects associated with a country estate of the 1920s. The main house was built in 1921–1923, and is a four-level, U-shaped Tudor country manor house with an oblique wing. It was designed by New York architect Frank E. Wallis, with a large recreation wing containing a ballroom, gymnasium, bowling alley, and indoor swimming pool designed by architect Richard Sharp Smith. Also on the property are the contributing Caretaker&#39;s Cottage , agricultural and service outbuildings, main entrance gates designed by Smith and Carrier , and landscape designed by noted landscape architect Chauncey Beadle The property is known as Camp Henry, a camp for young people and the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina offices are located on the estate.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Black Mountain Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 56 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district of Black Mountain. The district includes a variety of late-19th and early-20th century commercial and institutional buildings in the Commercial Style, American Craftsman, Classical Revival, Art Deco and Art Moderne. Notable buildings include the George Stepp House , Black Mountain Depot , firehouse  designed by Richard Sharp Smith, town hall , Kaltman Building , and Pure Oil Service Station .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Blue Ridge Assembly Historic District is a national historic district located near Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 29 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object associated with the Blue Ridge Assembly, conference center of the Young Men&#39;s Christian Association. The main building is Eureka Hall  designed by Louis E. Jallade. It was built in 1911–1912, and is a three-story, seven-bay, frame building with a full-height octastyle portico. Also located on the large central courtyard are the Gymnasium , Asheville Hall , Abbott Hall , and College Hall . Other notable buildings include the Martha Washington Residence , Craft and Child Care Center , and 19 frame cottages . Black Mountain College was founded here in 1933 and operated on the site until 1941.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>South Montreat Road Historic District is a national historic district located at Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 34 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Black Mountain. The district includes a variety of early-20th century dwellings in the Colonial Revival, American Craftsman, and Neoclassical styles. The district is characterized by a mix of primarily one- and two-story frame houses on small lots.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Blake House, also known as Newington, Royal Pines, and Joseph B. Pyatt House, is a historic home located at Arden, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, double pile stone house in the Gothic Revival style. The main block is five bays wide and has a hipped roof. The center hall plan interior features Greek Revival-influenced interior finishes. A rear ell was added in 1907.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Bruce A. and June L. Elmore Lustron House is a historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1949, and is a one-story, side-gable-roof Westchester Deluxe two- bedroom-model Lustron house. It is sheathed in dove grey and green enamel-finish steel panels. An addition was made to the house about 1985.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Monte Vista Hotel is a historic hotel building located at Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1937, and is a three-story, L-shaped Colonial Revival style brick building with a hipped roof. A six-room, one-story addition was built about 1940 that connects, by an enclosed breezeway, to a 16-room, one-story, L-shaped annex added in 1980. Also on the property is a contributing two-story, frame farmhouse .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
