The Case of the Michigan Connection and the Missing Memorandum

The Case of the Michigan Connection and the Missing Memorandum

By Dale Wayne Slusser- March 12, 2024 “Kenilworth Inn is thought to be designed by Ronald Greene, a prominent architect in Asheville who designed a number of the city’s downtown buildings on Pack Square.”[1]  So concluded the preparer of the official National...
Ronald Greene and the Carolina Wood Products Company

Ronald Greene and the Carolina Wood Products Company

By Dale Wayne Slusser- January 9, 2024 The first two decades of the twentieth century have long been known as Asheville’s architectural heyday, when many of its most famous historic houses and buildings were designed and built.  One of Asheville’s most famous...
A Community of Neighborhoods: The Development of Oakley

A Community of Neighborhoods: The Development of Oakley

By Dale Wayne Slusser 10/05/23 Southeast of downtown Asheville lies the community of Oakley, historically, a working-class neighborhood.  Often thought of as a planned community built in 1926 to accommodate the workers needed for the new Sayles Bleachery, in fact,...
Ben Ragsdale’s Brick House on Brackettown Road

Ben Ragsdale’s Brick House on Brackettown Road

By Dale Wayne Slusser Many Asheville residents, like me, have passed this street sign at the intersection of White Pine and Brackettown Roads at the north entrance to Asheville Mall, and asked the question- “Where is Brackettown”?  This is especially perplexing...