Biltmore Village Cottage District

Biltmore Village Cottage District

10 All Souls Crescent, Biltmore Village Cottage District, August 2012
Location Swan St., All Souls Crescent and Boston Way, Asheville, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°33′58″N 82°32′29″W / 35.56611°N 82.54139°W / 35.56611; -82.54139Coordinates: 35°33′58″N 82°32′29″W / 35.56611°N 82.54139°W / 35.56611; -82.54139
Area 9.9 acres (4.0 ha)
Built c. 1900 (1900)
Built by Vanderbilt, George W.
Architect Smith, Richard Sharp
MPS Biltmore Village MRA
NRHP Reference # 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]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 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.

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