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| Title | Zealandia |
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| Building Address | 40 Vance Gap Road, Asheville, NC |
| Subject - Keyword | Zealandia; Philip S. Henry; John Evans Brown |
| Subject - LCSH | Architecture -- North Carolina -- Asheville Asheville (N.C.) -- History Asheville (N.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Guidebooks Asheville (N.C.) -- Pictorial works |
| Description | Located high on Beaucatcher Mountain, Zealandia is one of Asheville's most familiar landmarks. The stately Tudor mansion was built from 1908 to 1920 for Philip S. Henry, an internationally prominent diplomat, scholar and businessman. His outstanding art collection formed the basis of Asheville's first art museum which was open to the public at Zealandia from 1924 to 1930 before it was housed in a separate building on the estate. The present house was Henry's addition to an earlier structure on the site which was built for John Evans Brown in 1889. Brown named the estate Zealandia after New Zealand where he had spent over twenty prosperous years as a sheep and cattle rancher, member of Parliament, and member of Provincial Council. The original Brown portion of the house was razed in the 1950s and the mansion was reduced to the present twenty-eight rooms. |
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| Date building constructed | 1908-1920 |
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| Architectural Style | Tudor mansion |
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| 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 | UNCA 2005 ; |
| Updated by | UNCA; Bray Creech, 11/2005 |
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