One of Asheville’s most significant historic structures, and one of The Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County’s greatest preservation successes was the magnificent home of Richard Mumford Pearson, jr, statesman, congressman and diplomat...
Attending St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines (SGP) K-12 in the old ”Victoria Inn” (later the SGP “Main Building”) was “home away from home” as a day student. The grammar school was on the first floor, classrooms encircling a small gym/assembly/play room. There was a St....
It was the on the sweetest spot in a town called the “Sweetest Place on Earth”. At the southeast corner of Chocolate and Cocoa Avenues, the “Cocoa Inn” was the center of Milton Hershey’s model town, Hershey, Pennsylvania. But for me it was a landmark, both in the...
By Dale Wayne Slusser When we think of Asheville’s booming 1920s’ building frenzy, one architect stands alone as Asheville’s premiere architect of the period: Douglas Ellington. In fact, at least five Ellington designed buildings remain in downtown Asheville as noted...
By Dale Wayne Slusser Landscape architect, Andrew Jackson Downing published Cottage Residences in 1842, and The Architecture of Country Houses, in 1850. In collaboration with architect Alexander Jackson Davis (who was the source for most of Downing’s designs) these...
