{"nrhp_refnum":"79001670","name":"Biltmore Village Commercial Buildings","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Brook St. and Biltmore Plaza","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.56765283400006,"lon":-82.54272523499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two adjoining commercial buildings in Biltmore Village, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, at 3 Brook Street and 2 Biltmore Plaza / 1 1/2 Brook Street. The document dates them to about 1900 and does not name a builder.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the buildings are remnants of the design work of architect Richard Sharp Smith in Biltmore Village and examples of how commercial and residential areas of the village were balanced. Smith used the same pebbledash and half-timbering motifs in both residential and commercial buildings, creating visual symmetry across the village. The buildings are also associated with George W. Vanderbilt, for whose manorial village they were built.","narrative":"Two adjoining commercial buildings in Biltmore Village, Asheville, dating from about 1900. The building at 2 Biltmore Plaza and 1 1/2 Brook Street is a one-and-one-half story structure with gables at each end and two gable dormers on the center section, with half-timbering in the gable ends. The building at 3 Brook Street is a one-story symmetrical gable-end structure with pebbledash walls, half-timbering and a central gable extension facing the street. Both were designed in the village by architect Richard Sharp Smith, who used the same pebbledash and half-timbering motifs in his residential and commercial work to keep the village visually unified. The buildings were erected for George W. Vanderbilt's planned village, and their surviving design shows how commercial and residential areas were kept in balance. The building at 3 Brook Street once housed the Biltmore Village Post Office and now holds an exterminating company, while the other serves as a barbershop and antique store.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Richard Sharp Smith (architect)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The structure at 3 Brook Street once served as the Biltmore Village Post Office and is now an exterminating company; the other building remains commercial, housing a barbershop and an antique store.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.235647-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/7173/47717330/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79001670.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001670/f4951e00f2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001670/f4951e00f2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biltmore_Village_Commercial_Buildings.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_Village_Commercial_Buildings.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717330","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltmore_Village_Commercial_Buildings","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17985908"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/biltmore-village-commercial-buildings-79001670/"}