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Biltmore Estate Office |
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| Title: | Biltmore Estate Office |
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| Creator - Architect: | Richard Morris Hunt |
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| Building Address: | 10 Biltmore Plaza, Asheville, NC |
| Subject - Keyword: | Biltmore estate buildings and architecture; Asheville, NC; George W. Vanderbilt; Richard Morris Hunt |
| Subject - LCSH: | Asheville (N.C.) -- Architecture -- Biltmore Estate Buildings |
| Description: | The Biltmore Estate Office, one of four structures in the village that were designed by Richard Morris Hunt, is a combination of the distinctive design motifs and materials utilized in other structures in Biltmore Village. The one-and-one-half story building features pebbledash wall surfaces, half-timbering, brick trim. chamfered and bracketed porch posts, and stylized classical ornament. Above the molded cornice rises a hipped roof pierced by oversized hipped roof dormers. A recessed full porch shelters a handsomely paneled and molded entrance with a three-light transom. The rear porte cochere has been converted into a firehouse garage. |
| Publisher: | D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
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| Date Building Constructed / Ended: | 1895 |
| Date Building Destroyed: | Remaining. |
| Building Type: | Mixed Use -- Residential; Commercial; |
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| Building Current Function: | Biltmore Estate Office currently houses the offices of the Biltmore Company. |
| Building Historic Function: | Housing for Biltmore estate workers and servants. Also served as housing the office for estate manager, Charles McNamee, as well as served as the office for Vanderbilt's Biltmore Village rental properties. When the estate was officially opened to the public in 1930, tickets were purchased from this location. Later in the 1930s the estate office was sold to the Asheville Fire Department, and garages for the fire trucks were accommodated behind the office. In the 1970s, Biltmore Estate repurchased the building |
| Tenants: | Biltmore estate workers and servants, estate manager, Charles McNamee |
| Format: | (digital) image/jpeg/text |
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| Source of Item: | SpecColl |
| Language: | eng=English |
| Related: | E. M. Ball Photograph Collection, UNCA |
| Bibliography: | National Register of Historic Places |
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| Coverage - Temporal: | 1886-1923 |
| Coverage - Spatial: | Asheville, North Carolina |
| DC Record Type: | text; image |
| Rights: | Any display, publication or public use must credit
D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina
at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
| Processed By: | NRHP; Erica Ojermark, 2004 |
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