Biltmore Shoe Store is a historic commercial building located at

Biltmore Village Biltmore Village, formerly Best, is a small village that is now entirely in the city limits of Asheville, North Carolina. It is adjacent to the main entrance of the Biltmore Estate, built by George W. Vanderbilt, one of the heirs to the Vande ...

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. It was designed by architect

Richard Sharp Smith Richard Sharp Smith (July 7, 1853 – February 8, 1924) was an English-born American architect, noted for his association with George Washington Vanderbilt II, George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate and Asheville, North Carolina. Smith worked f ...

and built about 1900. It is a small one-story

pebbledash Roughcast and pebbledash are durable coarse plaster surfaces used on outside walls. They consists of lime and sometimes cement mixed with sand, small gravel and often pebbles or shells. The materials are mixed into a slurry and are then thrown ...

-finished building with a clipped gable roof and half-timbering. It was listed on the

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in 1979.

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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Commercial buildings completed in 1900 Buildings and structures in Asheville, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Buncombe County, North Carolina {{BuncombeCountyNC-NRHP-stub

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