Norwood Park Historic District

Norwood Park is a 26-acre neighborhood of modest houses north of downtown Asheville, east of Merrimon Avenue and bounded by Murdock Street, Woodward Avenue and Norwood Avenue. All of its buildings stand within the historically platted Norwood Park subdivision and date from about 1900 to the early 1950s. Craftsman bungalows are the most common type, followed by Colonial Revival, Minimal Traditional, Dutch Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival houses. Lots are small, and houses sit close together in a steady rhythm of setback, often on hillsides with stone or concrete retaining walls. The district counts 155 contributing resources, mostly houses and garages, and 33 noncontributing ones, with no vacant lots. It represents Asheville's boom years of the first three decades of the twentieth century, with later infill from the late 1930s through the 1950s, and it retains a high degree of historic architectural integrity. Inventory entries draw on Sanborn maps, city directories and owner questionnaires to trace early residents.