By Dale Wayne Slusser When the current owners of 169 Flint Street (in Asheville’s historic Montford district) asked me to research the history of their house, they also asked me to investigate the possibility that their house was designed by Richard Sharp Smith. “R....
By Dale Wayne Slusser Most often when I’m asked by a homeowner to trace the history of their “old house”, the owner assumes that their house was originally designed and built for a specific owner. Often, they also assume that the house was designed by a notable...
By Dale Wayne Slusser Perched high on a steep wooded site on Sunset Mountain, accessed from below, up a series of rustic stone steps and a magical pathway that winds up the hill through the dense ivy ground-cover, is an enchanting Storybook-style cottage,...
By Dale Wayne Slusser As the ravages of the “Great War” began to fade and the post-war prosperity of the early 1920s dawned, those U. S. servicemen and women who had served overseas, began to replace their images of the horrors of war with the more pleasant memories...
By Dale Wayne Slusser How Old is My House?: James M. Blair House- A Case Study “How Old is My House?” is the prominent thing that historic house owners want to know about their house. Implicit in this question is also the question, “Who Built My House?”, meaning who...
Before Biltmore Village: Thomas Foster’s Farm and the Reed HousesJanuary 14, 2025
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