Grove Arcade
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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 |
The Grove Arcade, also known as the Arcade Building or the Asheville Federal Building, is a historic commercial building in Asheville, North Carolina, in its downtown historic district. It was built from 1926 to 1929, and is a Tudor Revival and 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 story.
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]
E.W. Grove, developer of Grove Park Inn, wanted a "classy look to a modern palace of commercialism."[3] The north side has winged lions without claws, a symbol of Venice, Italy.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Neufeld, Rob (2019-09-15). "Visiting Our Past: From an 1808 murder to a new development, the story continues". Asheville Citizen-Times. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
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- Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Tudor Revival architecture in North Carolina
- Gothic Revival architecture in North Carolina
- Commercial buildings completed in 1929
- Buildings and structures in Asheville, North Carolina
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- Historic district contributing properties in North Carolina
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