{"nrhp_refnum":"89000468","name":"Downtown Asheville Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["Biltmore Avenue Amendment","See Also:Downtown Asheville Histor"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"60 and 64 Biltmore Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.59261070100007,"lon":-82.55093134499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-05-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary increase adding two adjacent two-story brick commercial buildings, 60 and 64 Biltmore Avenue, on the east side of Biltmore Avenue south of Beaumont Street in Asheville, North Carolina. Both were built in 1925.","why_significant":"The two buildings are said to contribute to the period and areas of significance stated in the 1978 nomination for the Downtown Asheville Historic District. They represent the 1920s building boom, and 60 Biltmore Avenue served the tourist trade as the Burlington Hotel. They sit on land physically and developmentally contiguous with the existing district.","narrative":"Two adjoining two-story brick buildings at 60 and 64 Biltmore Avenue in downtown Asheville were added to the existing historic district. Both date to 1925, during the city's 1920s building boom. Number 60 was built as the Burlington Hotel, serving the tourist trade, and later became the Princeton Hotel around 1935. Its ground floor held shops, including the New York Cafe and Sterchies Furniture Exchange. Its brick facade has three bays, granite bases and sills, and an ornate terra cotta cornice with egg-and-dart molding. Number 64 is a simpler painted brick building with corbelled brickwork. It housed auto-related businesses such as battery and parts shops. It had suffered vacancy, deterioration and vandalism before being rehabilitated for offices. The buildings were added because they are physically and historically connected to the district, which is described as containing the finest collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century urban architecture in North Carolina.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements/Commercial Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"60 Biltmore Avenue has been rehabilitated inside for modern office use; 64 Biltmore Avenue was vacant, deteriorated and vandalized, and was being rehabilitated for office space.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.136425-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/22/7173/47717322/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89000468.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000468/d3ebd31a04-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89000468/d3ebd31a04-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"AbeEzekowitz","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asheville_Downtown_panorama.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">AbeEzekowitz</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:Asheville_Downtown_panorama.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79001676","name":"Downtown Asheville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/downtown-asheville-historic-district-79001676/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717322","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Asheville_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18149496"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/downtown-asheville-historic-district-boundary-increase-89000468/"}