{"nrhp_refnum":"05000938","name":"Biltmore Hospital","other_names":["Biltmore Hospital Extension","Battle Wing","Memorial Mission Hospital","Imperial Life Insurance Co."],"category":"building","location":{"address":"14 All Souls Crecent","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.56460806800004,"lon":-82.54112200799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-09-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Health/Medicine"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story brick and stone hospital building at 14 All Souls Crescent in Biltmore Village, Asheville, North Carolina, built 1929-30 and designed by local architect Douglas Ellington. It has a 1953 two-story addition and three related contributing structures and objects.","why_significant":"The hospital is significant under Criterion A for health and medicine because it expanded modern health care facilities in Asheville and later consolidated with three other hospitals to form Memorial Mission Hospital. Under Criterion C it is a significant example of Ellington's modernistic style, blending Beaux-Arts formalism, modern functionalism and natural materials. The 1953 changes reflect its later use by the Imperial Life Insurance Company.","narrative":"Built between 1929 and 1930 at the southeastern edge of Biltmore Village in Asheville, this four-story, flat-roofed building of brick and stone was designed by local architect Douglas Ellington. Its north facade combines thin coursed stone and randomly placed blocks in rose, pink, yellow and orange hues with buff brick, topped by a dog-tooth brick parapet and pink granite cornice. The hospital, originally called the Battle Wing, served the community as one of Asheville's largest medical facilities and later consolidated with three other hospitals to form Memorial Mission Hospital. The Imperial Life Insurance Company bought it and in 1953 hired Ellington to add a two-story block linked through the porte-cochere. Later the building served as an elderly care facility. A stone sign, two culverts and the addition are counted with it. The property was listed for its role in health care and for Ellington's distinctive design, and it has been rehabilitated as condominiums.","period_of_significance":"1930-1951, 1953","architect_builder":"Ellington, Douglas, architect; Geary, John M., builder","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Other: Tudoresque","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The interior has been rehabilitated into condominium units following the Secretary of the Interior's Standards, with eight units in the main building and three in the 1953 block.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.433813-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/7173/47717312/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/05000938.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000938/fdba36eb86-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000938/fdba36eb86-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biltmore_Hospital.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08</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:Biltmore_Hospital.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717312","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore_Hospital","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17985905"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/biltmore-hospital-05000938/"}