Hyman Heights-Mount Royal Historic District

Northeast of downtown Hendersonville, this forty-acre neighborhood combines two early twentieth-century subdivisions: Hyman Heights, platted in 1908 on a grid, and Mount Royal, platted in 1923 with curving streets that follow steep terrain and reflect an Olmsted-style approach to land planning. It holds 123 contributing houses and outbuildings and 26 non-contributing ones, and most were built before 1955 and remain largely intact. Bungalows are the most common type, followed by Minimal Traditional and Colonial Revival houses, with a few Ranch, Foursquare and other examples. Killarney, built about 1858, is the oldest house and the district's only Gothic Revival building. Much of the land was once part of its property. Stone retaining walls, mature trees and sidewalks mark the streetscapes. Building took place mainly from about 1905 to the late 1920s, with a second wave from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. The district was listed for this cohesive collection of residential architecture and planning.