{"nrhp_refnum":"77000990","name":"Battery Park Hotel","other_names":["See Also:79001676"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Battle Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.59700719600005,"lon":-82.53854304699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-07-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A fourteen-story brick hotel on the summit of a high hill at Battle Square in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, completed in 1924 and designed by hotel architect W. L. Stoddart for developer E. W. Grove.","why_significant":"The form presents the hotel as one of Asheville's most prominent landmarks and a vivid expression of the city's rapid development in the 1920s. It was the centerpiece of Grove's complex built after the old hotel and its hill were removed. It is also a representative, little-changed example of eclectic 1920s hotel architecture by a prolific hotel architect.","narrative":"Rising fourteen stories from the top of a hill in central Asheville, this brick hotel was completed in 1924 to designs by New York hotel architect W. L. Stoddart. Developer E. W. Grove bought the earlier Battery Park Hotel in 1920, had it torn down, and removed much of its hill to create a new commercial district that included an arcade, office buildings and this replacement hotel. The building has a T-shaped plan, brick quoins, a carved cornice, ornate iron balconies, a green tile roof and a penthouse with roof terraces. Inside, the lobby, mezzanine, ballroom and a ceramic fountain mosaic of the original 1884 hotel survive in part. The hotel stayed open through the Depression, hosted film casts in the 1950s, and closed in 1972. At the time of listing it stood vacant and vandalized. It was valued as a landmark of Asheville's 1920s boom and as a little-altered hotel design of the period.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1924)","architect_builder":"W. L. Stoddart","architectural_style":"Eclectic 1920s hotel architecture, with Neo-Classical and Spanish-influenced details","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as structurally sound but vacant, vandalized and boarded up; closed since October 31, 1972, with a HUD-backed renovation for senior apartments under review.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.89607-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/7191/47719191/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/77000990.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000990/ac62f32ed3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000990/ac62f32ed3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Battery_Park_Hotel.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:Battery_Park_Hotel.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719191","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_Park_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4869873"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/battery-park-hotel-77000990/"}