Arcade Building (Asheville, North Carolina)
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Grove Arcade Building | |
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Arcade Building, August 2012 | |
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| Location | Battery Park, Battle Sq., Asheville, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°35′44″N 82°33′24″W / 35.59556°N 82.55667°WCoordinates: 35°35′44″N 82°33′24″W / 35.59556°N 82.55667°W |
| Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Built | 1926-1929 |
| Built by | Geary, John M., Co. |
| Architect | Parker, Charles N. |
| Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 76001306[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 19, 1976 |
Arcade Building, also known as The Grove Arcade and Asheville Federal Building, is a historic commercial building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926-1929, and is a Tudor Revival / Late Gothic Revival style building consisting of two stacked blocks. The lower block is a rectangular slab with rounded corners; it is capped by the second block, a two-tier set-back. The steel frame and reinforced concrete building was designed to serve as a base for an unbuilt skyscraper. It features a roof deck with a bronze semi-elliptical balcony, molded terra cotta pilasters, and a ziggurat-like arrangement of huge ramps to the roof deck. The building occupies a full city block and housed one of America's first indoor shopping malls. It was sold to the federal government in 1943.[2] The building housed the National Climatic Data Center until 1995.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1] It is located in the Downtown Asheville Historic District.
References
- 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ Robert Topkins and Mary Alice Hinson (January 1976). "Arcade Building" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
External links
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