{"nrhp_refnum":"77000991","name":"Montford Area Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Irregular pattern along Montford Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.60585653500004,"lon":-82.56889236713923,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large, irregularly shaped residential historic district of late nineteenth and early twentieth century houses in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, extending from Battery Park Hill northward along the slopes toward the former village of Montford. It contains well over six hundred buildings, mostly domestic.","why_significant":"The district is described as a homogeneous, largely intact upper middle class neighborhood from Asheville's 1889-1920s boom period, with a wide range of Queen Anne, shingle, bungaloid and Colonial Revival houses. Its architecture and landscaping, including original granite curbing and brick sidewalks, are presented as a well-defined and identifiable place. Its association with Richard Sharp Smith, who supervised construction of Biltmore House, and with the Asheville residents who shaped its character, adds to its importance.","narrative":"Montford is a large, mostly wooded residential district on the slopes north of Battery Park Hill in Asheville, built mainly between the late 1880s and the 1920s. It holds well over six hundred buildings, most of them houses in Queen Anne, shingle, bungaloid and Colonial Revival styles, often combining wood shingles, pebbledash, stucco and stone. The Asheville Loan, Construction, and Improvement Company began the subdivision in 1889, and lumber merchant George Willis Pack later drove most of its growth. Richard Sharp Smith, who supervised construction of Biltmore House, designed or inspired many of the larger houses, and the neighborhood's original granite curbing and brick sidewalks survive. Its residents were largely professionals and businessmen, many of them newcomers to the city, and the district is regarded as Asheville's leading middle class neighborhood of its era and as its most intact.","period_of_significance":"1880-1929","architect_builder":"Richard Sharp Smith (architect for many houses in the district, though only a few are documented); Oliver Davis Revell (builder, for some houses); various for the remainder","architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Bungalow","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 17:11:41.436417-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/7191/47719185/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/77000991.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000991/45f8cf6a17-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000991/45f8cf6a17-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Karen D. Hoffman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homewood_School_Building,_Zillicoa_St.,_Montford_Area.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Karen D. Hoffman</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:Homewood_School_Building,_Zillicoa_St.,_Montford_Area.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719185","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montford_Area_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6905555"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/montford-area-historic-district-77000991/"}