Biltmore Village Cottage District
Biltmore Village Cottage District | |
![]() Boston Way, Biltmore Village Cottage District, January 2019 | |
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Location | Swan St., All Souls Crescent and Boston Way, Asheville, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°33′58″N 82°32′29″W / 35.56611°N 82.54139°WCoordinates: 35°33′58″N 82°32′29″W / 35.56611°N 82.54139°W |
Area | 9.9 acres (4.0 ha) |
Built | c. 1900 |
Built by | Vanderbilt, George W. |
Architect | Smith, Richard Sharp |
MPS | Biltmore Village MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 79001671[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 15, 1979 |
Biltmore Village Cottage District is a national historic district located at 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.[2]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/All_Souls_Crescent%2C_Biltmore_Village%2C_NC_%2839692928793%29.jpg/220px-All_Souls_Crescent%2C_Biltmore_Village%2C_NC_%2839692928793%29.jpg)
All Souls Crescent, Biltmore Village Cottage District
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ H. McKelden Smith (August 1976). "Biltmore Village Survey: Biltmore Village Cottage District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
External links[]
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Categories:
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Houses completed in 1900
- Houses in Asheville, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Buncombe County, North Carolina
- Vanderbilt family residences
- Buncombe County, North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs