About -
HERITAGE OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND THE BUILT
ENVIRONMENT PROJECT [Web pages]
Introduction and description of the LSTA
grant project "Asheville's Built Environment" and those who have
contributed to the project and are continuing to contribute to building
this community resource.
List of architects who worked in
Asheville and environs and whose work contributed to the built
environment of the region. Some biographies and bibliographies are
included.
Other biographies will be added when completed.
36 items (containing 1,300
total pages) including small
booklets, tourism brochures and pamphlets, promotional literature,
postcards and folios, and various ephemeral material gathered from
sources dating from the 1870s to 1923.
Selected list of buildings and sites located in
Asheville and environs that are included in the National Register of
Historic Places. Some sites are linked to web pages with extensive
information on the building or the site. Other places will be linked as information is
added. To SEARCH the collection for specific sites go to
Heritage of WNC, a CONTENTdm
database]
Chronology of Asheville and environs,
including key events in African-American history, Jewish history,
Cherokee history and other ethnic groups important to the vitality of
Asheville and the region.
3,256 photographs and
growing -
of Asheville's built environment, including buildings, dams, bridges,
roads, railroads, parks, and more. High-resolution mages may be zoomed
for detail.
759 documents related to
buildings and people who were important to the creation of the built environment
of Asheville and environs. Includes papers that describe such
buildings as the Old
Battery Park Hotel, Grove Park Inn, City Building, County Building and
other architectural landmarks.
106 drawings, architectural plans, site
plans, elevations, decorative details of many of Asheville's commercial buildings,
parks, and domestic dwellings. Largely drawn from the work of
Richard Sharp Smith held at the Asheville Art Museum.
Nearly 130 linear
feet (129 cartons) of administrative records for Asheville’s
Redevelopment Commission dating from around 1958 to 1970, as well as the
official records of Asheville’s Housing Authority from the late 1940s to
the 1990s. The records in this collection pertain primarily to several
significant redevelopment projects undertaken by Asheville from the
early 1960s to the mid-1980s. Also represented to a lesser extent are
smaller development and
redevelopment projects, as well as several housing projects and bridge
projects.
A useful guide for teachers
interested in Asheville's history, architecture, and key people.
Includes a list of links to resources that will assist teachers and students
in the use of materials from "Asheville's Built Environment."
Documents, oral histories, photographs
and other material related to Jewish Life in Western North Carolina.
Includes merchants and businesses
located in Asheville and environs. Provided through collaboration with
History@Hand, a non-profit research
group that specializes in Jewish Heritage in Western North Carolina.
Maps - [Web pages]
A small collection of maps related to
Asheville's and environs.
1891 bird's-eye view of the city of Asheville, North Carolina. and
Asheville, Buncombe Co. N.C. 1912 available from the
Library of
Congress American Memory Project. Search for "Asheville." [Maps from HeritageWNC partners' collections not yet available.]
28 oral histories of individuals who have
contributed to Asheville's built environment or whose history contains
information related to the history of the built environment.
Biographies of key people in the history
of Asheville and environs. Includes bibliography.
*The
Heritage of Western North Carolina -
Asheville's Built Environment
project is 100% supported with federal LSTA funds made possible through a
grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by
the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of
Cultural Resources and guided by NC ECHO.
North Carolina ECHO, Exploring
Cultural Heritage Online is the World Wide Web doorway to the
special collections
of North Carolina's libraries, archives,
museums, and historic sites
Copyright (C) 2005. University of North
Carolina at Asheville. All rights reserved. Maintained by Special
Collections, UNCA. This page last updated January 5, 2006.
Comments: hwykle@unca.edu
