Kenilworth Inn

Title Kenilworth Inn
Alternate Title  
Creator - Architect James Madison Chiles
Creator - Architectural Firm  
Building Address 60 Caledonia Avenue, Asheville, North Carolina
Subject - Keyword Kenilworth Inn; Asheville, NC; James Madison Chiles; Appalachian Hall; General Hospital No. 12; United States Naval Convalescent Hospital, Kenilworth Park
Subject - LCSH Asheville (N.C.) -- History
Mountains -- North Carolina
Asheville (N.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Architecture, Domestic -- North Carolina -- Asheville
Kenilworth Inn (Asheville, N.C.)
Description The Kenilworth Inn is Asheville's largest Tudor Style revival building.  James Madison Chiles, a prominent Asheville developer, built the inn in 1918 as a luxury hotel catering to well-to-do visitors drawn to the area's fashionable health and recreational attractions.  Later it was used as a convalescent hospital by the United States military during the two world wars and as Appalachian Hall, a mental health facility during the 1930s and early 1940s. 
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Date building constructed/ended 1918
Date building destroyed  
Building Type  
Architectural Style Late 19th & early 20th century revivals, Tudor revival
Building Current Function  
Building Historic Function Domestic: Hotel; Health Care: Hospital, Sanatorium, Resort
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Identifier http://www.heritagewnc.org/historic_register_sites/kenilworth_inn/kenilworth_inn.htm
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Language English
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Coverage - Temporal  
Coverage - Spatial Asheville, North Carolina 
DC Record Type  
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.
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Updated by UNCA; Bray Creech, 10/2005

 

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nrhp0327 East wing, eastern elevation showing modern fire escape.  View west. 
nrhp0328 West wing; main (south) facade.  View northwest.
nrhp0329 Main (south) facade of main building.  Summer view, facing north from the intersection of Caledonia Road and Finalee Avenue.
nrhp0330 Porte Cochere.  View west.
nrhp0331 Garage, main (north) facade.  View south from Caledonia Road.
nrhp0332 North wing, west facade, showing northwest courtyard.  View northeast from open terrace at end of west wing.
nrhp0333 West wing: west and south facades showing porches and adjacent landscaping.  View northeast from Caledonia Road.
nrhp0334 West wing: west facade, showing adjacent landscaping.  View east from Caledonia Road.
nrhp0335 West wing: south and west facades.  View south, angled east.
nrhp0336 Northeast courtyard view showing east facade of north wing.  View west, angled south.
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