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Biltmore Shoe Store
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| Title: | Biltmore Shoe Store |
| Alternate Title: | Biltmore Shoe Shop |
| Creator - Architect(s): |
Smith, Richard Sharp |
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| Building Address: | 8 Lodge Street, Asheville NC |
| Subject - Keyword: |
Biltmore Avenue Shoe Shop; Biltmore Shoe Store; Biltmore Shoe Shop; Richard Sharp Smith |
| Subject - LCSH: | Asheville, (N.C.) -- Architecture |
| Description: | The Biltmore Shoe Store, located at 8 Lodge Street, is a
small one-and-one-half story building, apparently one of those designed
in Biltmore Village by Richard Sharp Smith. The clipped gable-end
facade structure is two bays wide with an exterior brick chimney at the
ridgeline and exhibits the original pebbledash and vertically mounted
half-timbering which carries into the gable above a molded overhanging
cornice. The east bay is a series of four sash windows which carry
around to the east elevation. The upper members of the sash are
marked by diamond pattern glazing. The east elevation displays a
shed dormer and an interior brick chimney piercing the roof at the eave. The structure is significant for its associations with Smith's career and as an example of the varying functions to which Smith assigned his basic design motifs, in this case, a small commercial structure. In addition, the building recalls the original town plan of Frederick Law Olmsted which included well-defined residential and commercial areas that, at the same time, were joined by common architectural characteristics. |
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| Date building constructed / ended: | ca. 1900 |
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| Related: | Asheville Area Photographic Collection |
| Bibliography: | National Register of Historic Places |
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| Updated: | UNCA; Bray Creech, 11/2005 |
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