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Grove Arcade |
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| Title: | Grove Arcade |
| Alternate Title: | Asheville Federal Building |
| Creator - Architect(s): |
Charles N. Parker and E. W. Grove |
| Creator - Architectural Firm: |
Walter Taylor and Associates |
| Building Address: | 37 Battery Park Avenue, Asheville, NC |
| Subject - Keyword: |
Asheville, NC ; city and architecture; Asheville, NC; commerce; |
| Subject - LCSH: | Photography (Asheville, N.C.) Grove Arcade (Asheville, N.C.) Asheville (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works Asheville (N.C.) -- Architecture North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works Asheville (N.C.) -- Commerce and tourism |
| Description: | A grand, 3-and 4-story arcade building faced with cream glazed terra cotta in a Neo-Tudor Gothic style. Financed by E. W. Grove as a commercial mall, it was intended to have additional offices in a skyscraper on top of the existing structure. After the death of Grove, building continued, but the skyscraper was never finished due to the poor economic climate. At the north end are a pair of double ramps leading to a large roof terrace. The original shop fronts were, for a time, filled in with brick but have recently been restored to open windows. The original interior comprised of multiple mezzanines and oak-faced shop-fronts is largely intact, though the second and third floors have been modified for condominiums and office space. |
| Publisher: | D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| Contributor: | |
| Construction begun: | 1926 |
| Construction ended: | 1929 |
| Date building destroyed: | n/a |
| Building Type: | Commercial/ Government |
| Architectural Style: | Tudor Gothic Revival |
| Building Current Function: | Commercial shops |
| Building Historic Function: | Shopping mall. offices Federal Post Office Climatic Data Center offices |
| Tenants: | Occupied by the Federal government from 1942 to ..... |
| Format: | (digital) image/jpeg/text |
| Identifier: | http://toto.lib.unca.edu/wnc_architecture/core/buildings/grove_arcade.htm |
| Source of Item: | SpecColl |
| Language: | eng=English |
| Related: | E. M. Ball Photograph Collection, UNCA |
| Bibliography | National Register of Historic Places, |
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| Coverage - Temporal: |
after 1926 |
| Coverage - Spatial: |
Asheville, North Carolina |
| DC Record Type: | text; image |
| 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: | Erica Ojermark, 2004 |
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