West Side Historic District

West Side Historic District is a residential neighborhood of roughly 111 acres just west of downtown Hendersonville, North Carolina. It grew from a series of grid-plan subdivisions laid out between 1917 and 1951, many carved from earlier large landholdings. Gently rolling hills and granite retaining walls give the streets a distinctive character. The district holds 245 contributing buildings, mainly houses with their garages and outbuildings, plus one school. Bungalows are by far the most common type, with 102 counted, alongside Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Queen Anne, Minimal Traditional and Ranch houses. The oldest is the Columbus Mills Pace House, dating from the 1860s. Much of the main building period ran from the 1910s to the late 1920s, and many houses are attributed to Hendersonville architect Erle Stillwell, who often blended Classical and Tudor Revival details into bungalow forms. Two Neoclassical Revival apartment buildings, the Maxwell and the Ambassador, and Rosa Edwards Elementary School add variety to a well-preserved neighborhood.