By Dale Wayne Slusser When researching the history of a house, the primary goals, for me, are to try to discover who had the house built, who was the builder and/or architect, and when was the house built. Usually, the answers to these three questions, in most cases,...
by Dale Wayne Slusser An East Asheville homeowner inquired of the Preservation Society, if anyone in the Society knew anything about the mysterious dressed granite stone, incised with the name “WHITE BOULDERS”, which sits on top of a low stone wall along Old Chunns...
By Dale Wayne Slusser The arrival of the railroad to Asheville in 1880, resulted in an exponential growth in its population, prompting a long-term building boom which began in the late 1880’s and lasted through the early 1900’s and up until its abrupt cessation at the...
by Dale Wayne Slusser The Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County has recently purchased the Cappadocia Church in Asheville’s East End neighborhood, a historically African American neighborhood on the western slope of Beaucatcher Mountain. The...
By Dale Wayne Slusser The owner of the property at 124 Montford Avenue recently sent an inquiry to the Preservation Society inquiring about the history of their property, an apartment house obviously dating from the early 20th century. Two specific statements made by...
By Dale Wayne Slusser In an unpublished autobiography, Margaret Houston Linn Pritchard writes, that her father, Dr. Tisdale E. Linn, “thought there was no better investment than real estate,” and that besides wanting to invest in real estate to provide for his family,...
