Biltmore Village Cottage District

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Biltmore Village Cottage District
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Boston Way, Biltmore Village Cottage District, January 2019
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LocationSwan St., All Souls Crescent and Boston Way, Asheville, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°33′58″N82°32′29″W / 35.56611°N 82.54139°W / 35.56611; -82.54139
Area9.9 acres (4.0 ha)
Builtc. 1900 (1900)
Built byVanderbilt, George W.
ArchitectSmith, Richard Sharp
MPS Biltmore Village MRA
NRHP reference No. 79001671 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 15, 1979

Biltmore Village Cottage District is a national historic district located in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 14 contributing residential buildings in Biltmore Village. They were designed by Richard Sharp Smith and built about 1900 for George W. Vanderbilt. The dwellings are 1 1/2- to two-story, pebbledash finished half-timbered cottages with recessed porches, multiple gables, steeply pitched roofs, simple molded trim, one or more brick chimneys, and brick foundations. [2]

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ H. McKelden Smith (August 1976). "Biltmore Village Survey: Biltmore Village Cottage District" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.


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