Architectural Tidbits

by Dale Wayne Slusser At the northwest corner of Woodward Avenue and Norwood Avenue there sits a late-nineteenth-century gambrel-roofed house, which obviously predates all the other houses in the 1914 Norwood Park subdivision in North Asheville, which surrounds it. ...

by Dale Wayne Slusser A small unassuming log cabin, which sits on a bluff just above the John B. Lewis soccer fields in East Asheville, and which is now sadly in need of restoration, is famously known as “The Thomas Wolfe Cabin”, although Thomas Wolfe never owned it,...

By Dale Wayne Slusser When researching the history of a house, the primary goals, for me, are to try to discover who had the house built, who was the builder and/or architect, and when was the house built.  Usually, the answers to these three questions, in most cases,...

by Dale Wayne Slusser An East Asheville homeowner inquired of the Preservation Society, if anyone in the Society knew anything about the mysterious dressed granite stone, incised with the name “WHITE BOULDERS”, which sits on top of a low stone wall along Old Chunns...

by Dale Wayne Slusser  The Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County has recently purchased the Cappadocia Church in Asheville’s East End neighborhood, a historically African American neighborhood on the western slope of Beaucatcher Mountain.  The church...

By Dale Wayne Slusser The owner of the property at 124 Montford Avenue recently sent an inquiry to the Preservation Society inquiring about the history of their property, an apartment house obviously dating from the early 20th century.  Two specific statements made by...

By Dale Wayne Slusser In an unpublished autobiography, Margaret Houston Linn Pritchard writes, that her father, Dr. Tisdale E. Linn, “thought there was no better investment than real estate,” and that besides wanting to invest in real estate to provide for his family,...

By Dale Wayne Slusser  Architect and builder “H. W. Fitch”, at the age of 50, arrived in Asheville in 1888 from Atlanta, Georgia, and almost immediately began to make a name for himself in the building trades in Asheville’s then booming real estate and building...

by Dale Wayne Slusser The development of Montreat, North Carolina was the product of the blending of two Victorian social movements- the camp meeting, and the railroad promoted health and pleasure resorts movements.  The original concept for Montreat was, according to...