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Thursday, December 21, 2017 / Published in Architecture, Buildings, Local History, Photograph Collection

The Most Beautiful Brick I’ve Ever Seen!

Bricks and the Buildings They Made Exhibit at Pack Memorial Library on the main floor includes real bricks! This exhibit from the North Carolina Room will be on view through January. . . Downtown shopping or seeing the sights with family? Stop in and check it out. Kids will love it. Little is known about brick manufacturers
15 Clayton StreetAlbert BunnAsheville BricksAsheville HistoryBiltmore BricksBrickmasonsBuncombe CountyBunn BricksJames Vester MillerMontford BricksReynolds BricksRobbins BricksThe Bunn House
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017 / Published in Architecture, Asheville History, Buildings, Local History

How Well Do You Know Asheville’s Buildings? A Quiz With Up To $30 worth of prizes!

The North Carolina Room is currently exhibiting photographs from the Richard Hansley Photograph Collection. Mr. Hansley is the author of Asheville’s Historic Architecture, 2011. In 2014 Richard donated his entire photograph collection to the North Carolina Room. His love and enthusiasm of architecture shows in every photograph. We decided to use Mr. Hansley’s photos of details
Archtecture QuizAsheville HistoryBuncombe County HistoryRichard Hansley
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017 / Published in Architecture, Buildings, Local History, Smith Estate Hotel

Standing on One Corner in Asheville, Part Two

An eight-story, skeletal form of poured concrete reinforced with steel (upper right) stood on the corner of North Main and College Street for about 6 years as infighting among the Smith Estate’s heirs halted construction. An original drawing of the hotel (RSS0709) is dated January 1906. This was quite an embarrassment to the architectural firm of Smith &
Asheville HistoryBuncombe County HistoryCollege Street Parking DeckGay GreenJohn H. LangeLangren HotelSmith Estate Hotel
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Thursday, October 19, 2017 / Published in Events, Local History

You Won’t Believe What We Have to Share: North Asheville in the Spotlight! Wednesday October 25th

North Asheville Neighborhood History Program Finale Date: Wednesday October 25, 2017 Time: 6:00-7:30 PM Place: Pack Memorial Library, Lord Auditorium, lower level   Pat Fitzpatrick, a North Asheville resident of 40 years, and an interviewer extraordinaire, will tell about some of the most interesting and surprising stories uncovered through the 2017 North Asheville History Project.
Asheville HistoryBuncombe CountyNorth Asheville
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017 / Published in Buildings, Local History, Photograph Collection, Uncategorized

Standing On One Corner in Asheville, Part One

Standing on one corner of Asheville is an excellent place to learn about the ever-changing face of our town.  Do you recognize this corner and are you familiar with its curious history? James McConnell Smith was born in 1787. According to historical accounts he was the first white child born west of the Blue Ridge.
AC Hotel AshevilleAsheville HistoryBuck HotelBuncombe County HistoryJames McConnell SmithLangren HotelSmith's Hotel
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Monday, October 02, 2017 / Published in African Americans, Forgotten People, Historic Montford, Local History, Photograph Collection

Tempie Avery and the Montford Community Center

Tempie Avery was a young girl purchased in Charleston in 1840 by Nicholas Woodfin. During her time on his plantation she became a midwife delivering both black and white babies in Asheville. After the Civil War, Mr. Woodfin deeded property to Tempie at 26 Pearson Drive, the current site of the Montford Community Center. On
Asheville HistoryBuncombe CountyMonford Community CenterPauline MooreStumptownTempie Avery
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Friday, September 22, 2017 / Published in African Americans, Forgotten People, Local History, Photograph Collection, Uncategorized

Black Lives Built Western North Carolina Railroad

  The North Carolina Room received a call from someone–with both musical and local history interests–asking if there really was a collapse of the Swannanoa Tunnel, as the song, “Swannanoa Tunnel” relates? I said I would send him an article about it, thinking in a free moment I would just slap the article on the scanner and have it off to him.
African AmericansAsheville HistoryBuncombe County HistoryConvictsDarin WatersNorth Carolina Convict SystemRailroad HistorySwannanoa TunnelWestern North Carolina Railroad
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Friday, September 15, 2017 / Published in African Americans, Forgotten People, Local History, Photograph Collection

Buncombe County Slaves and the Western North Carolina Railroad

The Western North Carolina Railroad was chartered in 1852 by the North Carolina General Assembly. A railway was to be constructed from Salisbury to some point on the French Broad River beyond the Blue Ridge. By 1859 the road had reached Morganton, a distance of 84 miles. [Asheville News July 14, 1859.] The Western North
Asheville HistoryBuncombe CountySlaveryWestern North Carolina Railroad
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017 / Published in Events, Forgotten People, Local Heroes and Heroines, Local History

Event: Anne Penland, Asheville Native, W.W. I Nurse Anesthetist

Title: Anne Penland, Asheville Native, W.W. I Nurse Anesthetist Speakers: Symposium with Keynote Speaker, Sandra Oullette, Past President, American Association of Nurse Anesthetist. Also, the American Red Cross and Penland Family Members. Guest appearances by Actress Callan White and the Asheville High Brass Quintet. Date: Saturday September 16, 2017 Time: 1: PM to 3:00 PM followed by
AnesthetistAnne PenlandAsheville HistoryBuncombe CountyHistorical MarkersWorld War I
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