{"nrhp_refnum":"01001423","name":"Kenilworth Inn","other_names":["Appalachian Hall","General Hospital No. 12","United States Naval Convalescent Hospital","Kenilwork Park"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"60 Caledonia Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.572456817000045,"lon":-82.54072088699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-12-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Health/Medicine","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A early twentieth-century Tudor Revival luxury resort hotel on Kenilworth knoll, about two and a half miles south of downtown Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1918 on the site of an earlier 1890 inn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the inn is significant for its use as a resort hotel, a military convalescent hospital in both World Wars, and a mental health facility, reflecting Asheville's role as a health and tourism center. It is also regarded as an excellent and large example of Tudor Revival architecture in Asheville, locally significant under architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1918 on a hilltop in the Kenilworth district of Asheville, the Kenilworth Inn is a four-story Tudor Revival hotel with a five-and-a-half-story central block, three wings in a T-plan, stucco walls, brick quoins and applied half-timbering. Its granite porte cochere and battlemented parapet are distinctive features. The building replaced an 1890 inn destroyed by fire in 1909 and was financed by James Madison Chiles, the first mayor of Kenilworth. It opened as a luxury resort in 1923 and served as an Army general hospital in 1918-1919 and again in 1942-1944. From 1931 it operated as a private mental health facility. Its significance rests on its connection to Asheville's history as a health and tourism center, and on its architecture, which the nomination regards as Asheville's largest Tudor Revival building. The lobby contains a limestone mantelpiece, and the building retains its large dormers and multi-paned French doors.","period_of_significance":"1918-1951","architect_builder":"Carolina Wood Products (builder)","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Observatory removed in 1995; ballroom and interiors altered; lobby plaster deteriorated from water damage and neglect.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.946964-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/24/7192/47719224/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/01001423.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001423/65bedad8b9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001423/65bedad8b9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bill Fitzpatrick","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kenilworth_Inn.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Fitzpatrick</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kenilworth_Inn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719224","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenilworth_Inn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6389292"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/kenilworth-inn-01001423/"}