Biltmore Village Commercial Buildings is a set of two historic commercial buildings 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 ...
,
Asheville
Asheville ( ) is a city in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. Located at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers, it is the county seat of Buncombe County. It is the most populous city in Western North Carolina a ...
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. They were 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. Included is a 1 1/2-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 gable roof and half-timbering and a small one-story building that originally housed the Biltmore Village Post Office.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1979.
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See also
* Biltmore Village Cottage District
* Biltmore Village Cottages
* Biltmore Shoe Store
References
External links
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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
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