|
Biltmore Village Cottage District |
|
| Title | Biltmore Village Cottage District |
| Alternate Title | |
| Creator - Architect | |
| Alternate Creator | |
| Creator - Architectural Firm | |
| Building Address | 1, 3 Swan Street; 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11 All Souls Crescent; 2, 4, 5, 6 Boston Way; Asheville, NC |
| Subject - Keyword | |
| Subject - LCSH | |
| Description | In the eastern portion of Biltmore Village
are fourteen contiguous cottages designed by Richard Sharp Smith, an
architect in the firm of Richard Morris Hunt. All are
one-and-one-half to two story pebbledash cottages with recessed porches,
multiple gables, steeply pitched roofs, simple molded trim, one or more
brick chimneys, and brick foundations. Half-timbering, clipped
gable dormers, shed dormers, gambrel roofs, small brackets on porch
posts, and twelve-over-twelve sash occur on many of the dwellings.
Not two cottages are exactly alike, though in some cases they are
closely similar or even mirror images. The Biltmore Village Cottage District is significant as the largest surviving group of cottages that were constructed by George W. Vanderbilt for single family housing in Biltmore Village and represents Vanderbilt's conception of his manorial village. The handsomely executed dwellings are also significant for their associations with the career of Richard Sharp Smith, an architect in the firm of Richard Morris Hunt. Smith remained as Vanderbilt's personal architect after Hunt's death in 1895 and later established his own practice in Asheville. |
| Publisher | |
| Contributor | |
| Date building constructed | |
| Date building destroyed | |
| Building Type | |
| Architectural Style | |
| Building Current Function | |
| Building Historic Function | |
| Tenants | |
| Format | |
| Identifier | |
| Source of Item | |
| Language | |
| Related |
Oral History Register for Robert G. Griffin Oral History Register for Mary Hyde |
| Bibliography |
National Register for Historic Places: file://Newfile1/clifford/archive/national_historic_register/Biltmore Village/biltmore_village_register.rtf |
| Related Images | |
| Coverage - Temporal | |
| Coverage - Spatial | |
| Rights | |
| Processed by | |
| Updated by | |
|
|
|