{"nrhp_refnum":"79001675","name":"Conabeer Chrysler Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"162-164 Coxe Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.58850767200005,"lon":-82.55449429899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story steel-frame, orange-brick commercial building at 162-164 Coxe Avenue in Asheville, North Carolina, built in 1928 as an automobile showroom and garage.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it Asheville's finest 1920s auto showroom and the best of an important building type in the city in that period. It was designed by Beacham and LeGrand for the Conabeer Motor Company, the local Chrysler agency. It is also described as a handsome, well-designed structure with very few alterations.","narrative":"Built in 1928 at 162-164 Coxe Avenue, this three-story building was created as the new home of the Conabeer Motor Company, Asheville's Chrysler agency, which had grown from four partners in 1925 to more than twenty-five employees. Beacham and LeGrand of Asheville and Greenville, S.C., designed the steel-frame structure, which is faced in orange brick with limestone trim and has a trapezoidal plan. A recessed five-bay frontispiece topped by a shouldered gable marks the Coxe Avenue entrance, framed by columns of alternating brick and limestone cubes. Inside, the first floor held a showroom with oak and travertine-panelled walls, offices and a testing room; the second floor housed service and parts, and the third stored new vehicles. The land belonged to Tench C. Coxe, who controlled most new lots on Coxe Avenue. It is regarded as the city's finest 1920s auto showroom, and it survives with few changes and now serves as a furniture showroom.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Beacham and LeGrand of Asheville and Greenville, S.C.","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Currently used as a furniture showroom; very few alterations, the largest being a second-story fire exit cut into the Buxton Avenue elevation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.43136-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/18/7173/47717318/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79001675.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001675/7ff17a0b90-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001675/7ff17a0b90-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bill Fitzpatrick","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conabeer_Chrysler_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Fitzpatrick</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:Conabeer_Chrysler_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717318","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conabeer_Chrysler_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17986619"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/conabeer-chrysler-building-79001675/"}