by Dale Wayne Slusser As if finding a stash of empty, lidded, stacked liquor bottles behind a basement wall, and finding a shoe that was intentionally placed inside of a plastered wall, were not mysterious enough for the homeowners of 191 Murdock Avenue, tracing the...
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 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. ...
by Dale Wayne Slusser A small unassuming log cabin, which sits on a bluff just above the John B. Lewis soccer fields in East Asheville, and which is now sadly in need of restoration, is famously known as “The Thomas Wolfe Cabin”, although Thomas Wolfe never owned it,...
