By Dale Wayne Slusser- September 10, 2024 In the heart of Asheville’s historic Charlotte Street neighborhood, in the shadow of the historic Manor and Albemarle Park grounds, is a humble two-story house built by African-American John William Bowman and his wife...
By Dale Wayne Slusser- June 11, 2024 “NEW TYPE HOUSE FINDING FAVOR- River Rock Bungalows Are Unique And Material Is Plentiful”, announced the May 14, 1926 edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times.[1] In the opening line of the article, the reporter further announced...
By Dale Wayne Slusser- May 14, 2024 Tuberculosis, first called “phthisis” or commonly, “consumption”, had been around since ancient times, but during the 18th and 19th centuries it had turned into an insidious epidemic in Europe, Great Britain, and the United States. ...
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...
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...
