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...
By Dale Wayne Slusser “What are our Real Estate owners thinking of in not building houses?”[3], implored an anonymous subscriber to the Asheville News in November of 1869. In his (or her?) long appeal, the anonymous subscriber gave a comprehensive state of building,...
By: Dale Wayne Slusser Shortly after British born architect Arthur John Wills left Asheville in early 1893 and returned home to St. John’s Newfoundland, after three years of living and working in Asheville, he sent a letter to the Asheville Citizen-Times with the...
