by Catherine Amos | January 13, 2026 | Architectural Tidbits | 2 Comments

by Dale Wayne Slusser - January 2026 The urgent need for more housing for veterans returning home at the close of World War II was both a national and local crisis.  In February of 1946, President Harry Truman gained bipartisan approval from Congress for what was...

by Catherine Amos | December 8, 2025 | Architectural Tidbits | 4 Comments

by Dale Wayne Slusser December 9, 2025 O, give back Swannanoa The joys of yesterday That wrought a mystic aura About your winding way. -Mary Finch     Hurricane Helene and its resultant catastrophic flooding wreaked havoc along the banks of the Swannanoa River in...

by Catherine Amos | October 14, 2025 | Architectural Tidbits | 3 Comments

by Dale Wayne Slusser Asheville, North Carolina, founded in the 1790’s in the mountains of Western North Carolina, remained remote and rather inaccessible well into the latter half of the nineteenth-century.  And although promoted as a “health resort”, beginning in...

by Editor | June 10, 2025 | Architectural Tidbits | 0 Comments

 by Dale Wayne Slusser And smiling fields of golden corn, The mountains and the vales adorn, And fruits and beauteous flowers grow, Upon the banks of Swannano! -W.[1]   The site of the Cloisters Condominiums along the north bank of the Swannanoa River, and parts of...