{"nrhp_refnum":"89000247","name":"Grove Park Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Bryan, William Jennings, House","See Also:Grove Park"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Evelyn Pl., Macon Ave., Howland Rd., Woodland Rd., Canterbury Ln., Charlotte St., and Murdock Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.61091520450006,"lon":-82.54533578798396,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A planned residential historic district of detached single-family houses on curvilinear streets in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, laid out from 1908 with the development's early phases platted in 1908-1913 and 1914.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is an early and intact example of planned suburban residential development designed for the automobile rather than the streetcar, with curvilinear streets, large lots and naturalistic landscaping after the Olmsted approach. It also cites the concentration of period revival and eclectic houses by local and nationally known architects as significant for architecture.","narrative":"Laid out from 1908 in Asheville, the Grove Park district is a planned suburb of detached single-family houses on curving streets, with large lots of one-third to one-half acre and stone retaining walls. Edwin Wiley Grove, a St. Louis pharmaceutical manufacturer, developed it with landscape designer Chauncey Beadle, who had worked for the Olmsted firm and the Biltmore Estate. The layout broke with Asheville's earlier grid pattern and was planned around the automobile, with rear alleys serving garages. The district holds 156 principal buildings, most of them dating from 1908 to 1938, in a range of revival and eclectic styles. Architects represented include Richard Sharp Smith, Ronald Greene, Henry I. Gaines and James Gamble Rogers. Its significance rests on its planning and landscape, and on the architecture of its houses, which the nomination describes as an intact example of early twentieth-century suburban design.","period_of_significance":"1908-1938","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, American Foursquare, Shingle, Neo-Classical, Prairie, Georgian Revival, Italian Renaissance, Chateauesque, Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.421573-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/99/7191/47719199/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89000247.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000247/6bfe5c3da9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000247/6bfe5c3da9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grove_Park_Historic_District_-_Dr._Louie_Mueller_Griffith_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:Grove_Park_Historic_District_-_Dr._Louie_Mueller_Griffith_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719199","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grove_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18151153"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/grove-park-historic-district-89000247/"}