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Pisgah National Forest Inn, Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 408.6, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

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Pisgah National Forest Inn, Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 408.6, Asheville, Buncombe County, NC

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Summary

Significance: The Old Pisgath Inn and Cottage is an important complex within the framework of the recreational history of western North Carolina. Among many guests, the Inn was a favorite retreat for the area's wealthy elite and certain noted professionals from other areas.
The property is an excellent example of rustic architecture and retains integrity of location and setting, particularly important here, as well as materials, workmanship, design, feeling, and association. Derived from William West Durant's Adirondack architecture known as "Pine Knot Style," the irregular mass of Inn buildings and additions are informally planned, with rustic gray board and batten siding, uncoursed stonework chimneys, and bark covered structural members composing a structure sitting on a shelf overlooking a broad forest expanse.
Survey number: HABS NC-356
Building/structure dates: 1919 Initial Construction

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Date

1919 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Weston, George Farrington
Calloway, Deborah, transmitter
Weiland, J, photographer
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Location

Asheville (N.C.)35.59506, -82.55149
Google Map of 35.5950581, -82.5514869
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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