South Montreat Road Historic District

Along Montreat Road north of downtown Black Mountain, a linear residential district of early and mid-twentieth-century houses developed beside the road that led to the Montreat retreat community. Most resources were built between 1920 and 1930, with a second wave after World War II. The houses include well-detailed Craftsman bungalows, Colonial Revival dwellings with stone and wood-shingle walls, and later Minimal Traditional and Ranch houses. Many use river rock for foundations, porch piers, and retaining walls, a material associated with Montreat's buildings. The road was graded around 1900 to connect Black Mountain with the Mountain Retreat Association's property, and the Presbyterian Church later acquired that land as Montreat. Lots were platted by the Dougherty, Kerlee, McKoy and Alexander families in the early 1900s. The district contains forty-six resources, thirty-four of them contributing. It is regarded as a representative example of the residential character of the town's prosperous early twentieth century.