Hot Springs Historic District

Hot Springs Historic District covers about nine acres at the center of Hot Springs, North Carolina, on both sides of Spring Creek and along Bridge Street. It holds one- to three-story brick, fieldstone and concrete block commercial and government buildings, two houses and a church, mostly set in contiguous rows with flat roofs and parapets. Notable examples include the 1900 Gothic Revival Dorland Memorial Presbyterian Church, designed by Asheville architect Richard Sharp Smith, the ca. 1890 Queen Anne Gorenflo House, the fieldstone Gentry Hardware of 1946, and the mid-1950s Tweed's Court motor lodge. Most early wood buildings were replaced by brick ones in the 1920s. The district reflects the town's growth around the mineral springs resort, which developed along the Buncombe Turnpike and later the railroad that arrived in 1882. Together the buildings form an intact grouping from the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, with fourteen contributing buildings and one contributing structure.