by Dale Wayne Slusser We preservationists have flown banners in front of historic properties which tout: “THIS PLACE MATTERS!”. But what do we mean by the word PLACE! The house that Samuel D. Holt built in 1906, at 162 W. Chestnut Street, for me is an example to...
by Catherine Twomey It must have been a particularly cold February in Asheville; the kind we rarely have anymore. It was 1977 and the small jewel of Kenilworth Lake had frozen solid. A single engine Piper PA 12 Super Cruiser flew south and east of downtown Asheville...
by Dale Wayne Slusser Owners of a historic 1920’s English Arts & Crafts house in the high-end historic Grove Park neighborhood in Asheville, discovered that their house may not have been built as a “one-of-a-kind” custom built home, as they had discovered that...
by Dale Wayne Slusser Montreat started in 1897 as a summer religious conference ground. Now after 125 years, Montreat has evolved into an incorporated town within which lie not only the religious conference ground, but also a Christian liberal arts college, a...
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. ...
