by Editor | April 8, 2025 | Architectural Tidbits | 13 Comments

by Dale Wayne Slusser “Governor -elect Locke Craig within the next few weeks, will begin the erection of a modern country home on his property on the Swannanoa River.” -Asheville Citizen-Times, January 9, 1913.   In 1949, North Carolina erected a historical marker...

by Editor | February 11, 2025 | Architectural Tidbits, Blog, Pebbledash | 28 Comments

by Dale Wayne Slusser Swannanoa, nymph of beauty,                         I would woo thee in my rhyme;                                            Wildest, brightest, loveliest river,                                                        Of sunny Southern clime! Over...

by Editor | January 14, 2025 | Architectural Tidbits | 0 Comments

by Dale Wayne Slusser Gone forever from thy borders, But immortal in thy name, Are the Red men of the Forest! Be thou Keeper of their fame! Paler races dwell beside thee, Celt & Saxon till thy lands… - poem, "Swannanoa: Nymph of Beauty" All the land now occupied by...

by Editor | January 14, 2025 | Architectural Tidbits | 0 Comments

by Dale Wayne Slusser It all started with a cottage by the river. One day in 2013, I was driving on the road that runs along the north side of the Swannanoa River, near the historic Biltmore Village, when I noticed an abandoned shingle-styled cottage, sitting at the...