{"nrhp_refnum":"82003436","name":"Reynolds, Dr. Carl V., House","other_names":["Albemarle Inn"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"86 Edgemont Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.61463381600004,"lon":-82.54197264599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-08-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Education","Architecture","Performing Arts"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Neo-classical Revival house at 86 Edgemont Road in the Grove Park neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina, built in 1909 for Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, with a 1920s frame classroom building beside it. It is known today as the Albemarle Inn.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be one of the most prominent and fully developed Neo-classical Revival houses surviving in Asheville. It is tied to Dr. Reynolds, a leader in public health and an early developer of Proximity Park, which became Grove Park. It is also linked to the 1943 stay of composer Bela Bartok, who completed his Third Piano Concerto there.","narrative":"Built in 1909 near the foot of Sunset Mountain, the house at 86 Edgemont Road in Asheville is a porticoed, two-story Neo-classical Revival residence with a monumental Corinthian portico, paneled corner posts and a detailed entablature. Inside, a closed-string, three-stage stair is the dominant feature. It was built for Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, an Asheville native who served as city health officer and later as state health officer, and who helped found the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina. Reynolds also organized the Proximity Park Company, the development that became Grove Park under E. W. Grove. The house later served as a private girls' school and then the Plonk School of Creative Arts, with a classroom building added in the 1920s. From 1941 it operated as the Albemarle Inn, a rooming house. Hungarian composer Bela Bartok stayed there in 1943 and completed his Third Piano Concerto, also called the Asheville Concerto.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Neo-classical Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a rooming house (the Albemarle Inn); the classroom building was converted into apartments in the 1940s, and a substantial rehabilitation was under way at the time of the nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.901887-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/7192/47719212/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/82003436.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003436/d36b080121-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003436/d36b080121-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Carl_V._Reynolds_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Carl_V._Reynolds_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719212","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Carl_V._Reynolds_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18157226"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/reynolds-dr-carl-v-house-82003436/"}