{"nrhp_refnum":"11000972","name":"Downtown Asheville Historic District (Boundary Increase III and Boundary Decrease)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"76-129 Biltmore Ave., 64 Carter St., 11-23 Grove St., 14-44 N. French Broad Ave., 12-25 S. French Broad Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville NC","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.59322615900004,"lon":-82.55911119199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A downtown commercial and mixed-use district in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, covering roughly thirty-three blocks of the central business district and nearby residential areas. This nomination covers a boundary increase, a boundary decrease and additional documentation to the original 1979 district.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the Boundary Increase III areas reflect Asheville's boom period of the early twentieth century and its recovery from the Depression, with commercial buildings and residences from ca. 1890 to 1961. It extends the district's period of significance to 1961 to include mid-century resources, and cites the work of local architects William H. Lord, Charles N. Parker and Six Associates. Significance is argued under architecture and commerce, tied to automobile tourism and postwar changes in downtown retail.","narrative":"Downtown Asheville's commercial core and adjoining residential streets form this expanded historic district, which covers about thirty-three blocks. The additions reach from Biltmore Avenue and South French Broad Avenue to Grove Street and include buildings from ca. 1890 onward. The Carmichael-Leonard House at 129 Biltmore Avenue, built around 1890, is the oldest surviving structure in the increase area, a two-story hip-roof brick dwelling with Victorian details. The former YWCA at 11 Grove Street, designed by William H. Lord and built 1924-1925, shows Georgian Revival detailing. Charles N. Parker designed the 1926 Salvation Army citadel on Patton Avenue. The district is significant for its record of the 1920s building boom, the Depression slowdown, and the mid-century shift toward automobile tourism and suburban retail. The nomination extends the district's period of significance through 1961 so that the mid-century buildings are counted as contributing.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1890 - 1961","architect_builder":"William H. Lord (architect); Charles N. Parker (architect); Six Associates Inc. (architect)","architectural_style":"Commercial Style, Colonial Revival, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Art Deco, Moderne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.196458-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/2/7173/47717302/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/11000972.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000972/d3ebd31a04-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000972/d3ebd31a04-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"AbeEzekowitz","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asheville_Downtown_panorama.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeEzekowitz</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:Asheville_Downtown_panorama.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79001676","name":"Downtown Asheville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/downtown-asheville-historic-district-79001676/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717302","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Asheville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18149496"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/downtown-asheville-historic-district-boundary-increase-iii-and-boundary-decrease-11000972/"}