{"nrhp_refnum":"06001105","name":"Raoul, Thomas Wadley, House","other_names":["Raoulwood"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"394 Vanderbilt Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.534305268000026,"lon":-82.53980201999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-11-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-and-one-half-story Tudor Revival house known as Raoulwood, at 394 Vanderbilt Road in Biltmore Forest, an incorporated suburb next to Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1923 for Thomas Wadley Raoul, with a servant's cottage and a garage on the grounds.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant under Criterion C for architecture as a well-preserved example of Tudor Revival style with Craftsman influences. It retains much original fabric, including bathrooms, fittings, doors, casements and kitchen cabinets, and is the only one of the four founding partners' houses in Biltmore Forest not extensively renovated. It is also tied to Raoul, a founder of the Biltmore Forest community, and to landscaping said to be by Chauncey Beadle.","narrative":"Raoulwood is a two-and-one-half-story, ten-bay Tudor Revival house of about 6,000 square feet at 394 Vanderbilt Road in Biltmore Forest, beside Asheville. Built in 1923 for Thomas Wadley Raoul, it has stucco walls with vertical half-timbering on the second floor, a steeply pitched slate roof, a leaded oriel window and a sleeping porch where Raoul took mountain air for his tubercular lungs. Inside, rough stucco walls, hewn beams and Craftsman brick fireplaces give a rustic feel, while the dining room is more classical. A contributing servant's cottage from the same year and a non-contributing 1963 garage stand on the grounds, which family recollection attributes to landscape designer Chauncey Beadle. The house is significant for its architecture. Despite a 1990 fire in the top story, it keeps its original bathroom tiles, casement fittings, moldings, window sashes, doors and kitchen cabinets. Of the four founding partners' houses in Biltmore Forest, it is the only one not extensively renovated.","period_of_significance":"1923","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Tudor Revival; Craftsman","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling with garden grounds. The top story burned in 1990 and was restored, and the original garage was replaced in 1963.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:53.953328-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/7191/47719157/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/06001105.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719157","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wadley_Raoul_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157133"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/raoul-thomas-wadley-house-06001105/"}