{"nrhp_refnum":"99000913","name":"Spinning Wheel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1096 Hendersonville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.53547604100004,"lon":-82.52787905099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story, T-shaped commercial building on Hendersonville Road (Highway 25) about five miles south of downtown Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, built in 1939. It combines a reassembled log cabin sales gallery, a glassed \"dog-trot\" connector, and a frame loom room.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its role in the Southern Appalachian handicraft revival, where it housed a weaving industry, retail sales gallery and mail order business from 1939 to 1948. It is also associated with craft leader Clementine Douglas and is regarded as a notable example of architecture by William Waldo Dodge, Jr., using a salvaged log cabin and high integrity.","narrative":"Built in 1939 on Hendersonville Road about five miles south of downtown Asheville, the Spinning Wheel combines three linked sections. Its main room is a reassembled log cabin salvaged from northern Buncombe County, with half-dovetail notched logs and a fieldstone chimney. A glassed dog-trot connects it to a frame loom room that housed six heavy timber looms. Architect William Waldo Dodge, Jr. supervised the dismantling and reconstruction of the cabin and designed the building. Clementine Douglas operated it as a weaving workshop and sales gallery, and it became a center for the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild. During the Second World War, when travel was restricted, the shop turned to mail order sales to keep its weavers employed. The Spinning Wheel is significant for its connection to the handicraft revival, for its association with Douglas, and for the architecture of its log section. The 1945 concrete block shipping extension is also part of its history.","period_of_significance":"1939-1948","architect_builder":"William Waldo Dodge, Jr. (architect)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The 1945 extension is within the period of significance; the weather vane is missing; the building was sold in 1948 and converted to a gift shop, and now houses various retail businesses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.253024-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/7192/47719256/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000913.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000913/0b024e5d74-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000913/0b024e5d74-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bill Fitzpatrick","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Spinning_Wheel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Fitzpatrick</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:The_Spinning_Wheel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719256","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_Wheel_(Asheville,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18158313"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/spinning-wheel-99000913/"}