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St. Mary's Episcopal Church
The Rectory for St. Mary's Church, design by
Richard Sharpe Smith, 1925. |
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| Title: | St. Mary's Episcopal Church | |
| Alternate Title: | St. Mary's | |
| Creator - Architect: |
Richard Sharpe Smith | |
| Creator - Landscape Architect | Chauncey Beadle | |
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| Building Address: | Macon and Charlotte Street, Asheville, NC (North Asheville) | |
| Subject - Keyword: |
Richard Sharpe Smith ; St. Mary's Episcopal
Church ; Episcopal Church ; religion ; churches ; Chauncey Beadle ; Grove
Park ; E.W. Grove ; Gail Godwin ; architects ; architecture |
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| Subject - LCSH: | Smith, Richard Sharpe Asheville (N.C.) -- History Architecture -- North Carolina -- Asheville Historic buildings -- North Carolina – Asheville Building -- St. Mary's Episcopal Church --(Asheville, N.C.) Asheville (N.C.) -- Building Asheville (N.C.) -- Commerce and downtown and warehouse |
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| Description: | A Gothic Revival Style building that was
established at the corner of Charlotte Street and Macon Avenue in 1914.
The property was purchased from E.W. Grove who had begun to develop his
large real estate holdings on near-by Sunset Mountain. Richard Sharpe
Smith, formerly the assistant to Richard Hunt for the construction of the
Biltmore Estate, was contracted to design and construct the church. Smith
was a vestry man in the new Episcopal parish, had a personal interest in
the project. In addition to the church, a small rectory stands behind the
church, also designed by Smith, but not constructed until 1925. The
Wayside Shrine at the juncture of Macon and Charlotte was put into place
in 1915, just shortly after the first service on Christmas Day, 1914. A
plan for the landscape was devised by Chauncey Beadle who had also worked
on the Biltmore Estate. His mentor, Frederick Law Olmstead was a master
landscape architect whose work may be seen in Central Park in New York and
many other parks across the country. The work of Chauncey Beadle was later
enhanced in the 1960's by Doan Ogden, another well-known landscaper who
was responsible for the near-by Botanical Gardens on Weaver Boulevard and
for Kenilworth gardens in Asheville. The church has a long history in the community and has been the source of many weddings and funerals of Asheville people. The noted author, Gail Godwin used the church as the setting for parts of her well-known novel set in Asheville, Father Melancholy's Daugher. |
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| Publisher: | Digital: D. H. Ramsey Library, UNC Asheville | |
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| Date building constructed / ended: | 1914 date building cornerstone laid. | |
| Date building destroyed: | ||
| Building Type: | church | |
| Architectural Style: | Gothic Revival | |
| Building Current Function: | church | |
| Building Historic Function: | church | |
| Tenants: | Episcopal Church | |
| Format: | Stone, brick | |
| Identifier: | ||
| Source of Item: | E.M. Ball Collection | |
| Language: | English | |
| Related: | St. Mary's National Register of Historic Places Application ; | |
| Bibliography: | Archives, St. Mary's Episcopal Church | |
| Related Images: | E.M Ball Photographic Collection - ball3691 | |
| Coverage - Temporal: |
1914 - present | |
| Coverage - Spatial: |
Asheville, North Carolina | |
| DC Record Type: | text ; image ; collection | |
| 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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| Processed By: | Special Collections Staff 2007 | |
| Updated: | 2007-05-06 | |
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