-Dale Wayne Slusser -November 2023 “No prettier or more accessible location for the erection of handsome houses exists in the city than that of Prospect Park,”[1] announced the May 28, 1889, edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times. Prospect Park, Cliveden...
By Dale Wayne Slusser 10/05/23 Southeast of downtown Asheville lies the community of Oakley, historically, a working-class neighborhood. Often thought of as a planned community built in 1926 to accommodate the workers needed for the new Sayles Bleachery, in fact,...
By Dale Wayne Slusser Many Asheville residents, like me, have passed this street sign at the intersection of White Pine and Brackettown Roads at the north entrance to Asheville Mall, and asked the question- “Where is Brackettown”? This is especially perplexing...
by Dale Wayne Slusser The river-rock building tradition in Buncombe County was spawned in the early 1920’s at Montreat, NC with the building of the Anderson Auditorium in 1921-22. This river-rock/cobblestone building tradition not only continued in Montreat after the...
by Dale Wayne Slusser George Washington Vanderbilt began building his 250-room French Renaissance château in the mountains of Western North Carolina, just south of Asheville in 1889. Designed by the renowned architect, Richard Morris Hunt, construction of “Biltmore”...
