{"nrhp_refnum":"79003323","name":"Building at 130-132 Biltmore Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"130--132 Biltmore Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.590447496000024,"lon":-82.55088953499995,"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":"A two-story granite apartment building with a slate-shingled mansard roof at 130-132 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, built about 1905 as 'flats'.","why_significant":"It is one of a row of granite apartment buildings on the lower end of Biltmore Avenue, an unusual form for North Carolina with massing and detailing reminiscent of European or English models. The design may have been influenced by, or actually done by, English emigre architect R. S. Smith. Built as flats, it was also unusual for Asheville, where multi-unit housing was usually provided by large hotels or subdivided houses.","narrative":"Built about 1905 on Biltmore Avenue in Asheville, this two-story apartment building is made of uncoursed rubble granite and topped with a high, slate-shingled mansard roof. The front faces the street directly and is stuccoed and incised to resemble ashlar, with rock-faced granite quoins, jack arches and arched window surrounds. Small gable-roofed porches flank the front, two three-sided oriel windows mark the second floor, and tall stuccoed chimney stacks line both side elevations. A dormer with its own central stack rises from the front roof slope. It belongs to a row of granite apartment buildings on the lower end of the avenue, a form unusual in North Carolina and closer to European or English models than to typical Queen Anne or Colonial Revival houses. The design may reflect the influence of English emigre architect R. S. Smith, or may be his work. Insurance maps show it was built as flats, which was uncommon in Asheville at the time.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Possibly R. S. Smith (design attribution is uncertain; the form says the building may have been influenced by or designed by him)","architectural_style":"English Queen Anne domestic architecture with a Georgian flavor","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:58.423662-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/96/7172/47717296/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/79003323.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003323/c8c961b9f7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003323/c8c961b9f7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jhersk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:130_Biltmore_Ave.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jhersk</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:130_Biltmore_Ave.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717296","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_at_130%E2%80%93132_Biltmore_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17986146"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/building-at-130-132-biltmore-avenue-79003323/"}