Asheville Art Museum | Asheville-Buncombe Library | UNC Asheville | YMI Cultural Center
Appalachian State University |Appalachian Cultural Museum |Southern Highland Craft Guild
Asheville
Art Museum | Asheville-Buncombe
Library | UNC
Asheville |
YMI
Cultural Center
Appalachian
State University |Appalachian
Cultural Museum |Southern
Highland Craft Guild
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BILTMORE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL |
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| "Younger than Allenstand, and more remarkable as an illustration of the possibilities of the mountaineer for a high type of development, is the industrial school at Biltmore. Here, the rector of All Souls, the Biltmore Church, recognizing the needs of the people secured the services of two women gifted with the genius necessary to carry such a work to perfection, and who in ten years' time have developed to its present remarkable point what is known as the "Biltmore Industries", the history of which is as interesting as a story. The school was designed to meet the needs of the people connected with Biltmore Estate, and the enthusiastic founders started with four boys, the first one of whom had to be paid to come! Today some of those who first entered are carving chairs for the great establishment of Tiffany of New York, and more than 100 of the pupils are earning a livelihood by their woodcarving craft...." (1913, Morley, pp. 230-231) | |