{"nrhp_refnum":"79001683","name":"Schoenberger Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"60 Ravenscroft Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.59041615900003,"lon":-82.55331715499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Schoenberger Hall is a two-and-a-half-story brick residence at 60 Ravenscroft Drive in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, built in 1887 and set at the end of a circular driveway.","why_significant":"It was the home of the Ravenscroft Associate Missions and Training School of the North Carolina Episcopal Diocese and later the official residence of the Bishop of Western North Carolina. It is also described as one of the oldest residences in downtown Asheville and one of the best examples of Queen Anne/Eastlake styling.","narrative":"Schoenberger Hall is a two-and-a-half-story brick house at 60 Ravenscroft Drive in Asheville, built in 1887. Its brick is laid in stretcher bond, and it has a slate-shingled mansard roof with several gables, an Eastlake-detailed veranda, Roman-arched windows, two rose windows in the front gable, and sections of colored glass. Inside, much Eastlake woodwork survives. The house was built to shelter the Ravenscroft Associate Missions and Training School, a post-Civil War seminary that trained young country men, some of them Confederate veterans, for the ministry. John Schoenberger of Pittsburgh, a friend of Bishop Theodore B. Lyman, gave $11,000 toward construction, and the diocese added $3,000. After western North Carolina became a separate diocese in 1898, the house became the bishop's official residence, first occupied by Bishop Junius Horner. The residence moved in 1957 and the house was sold. It later served as a shop and was then left empty and deteriorating.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne/Eastlake","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as empty and deteriorating after years of use as a shop; few basic changes have been made to the house.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.012036-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/7172/47717280/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79001683.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717280","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoenberger_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157817"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/schoenberger-hall-79001683/"}