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Sam Irvin, film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. Taras Kulakov (born 1987), YouTuber. Daliah Lavi, (1942–2017), German singer who lived the last 27 years of her life in Asheville. Barbara Loden, actress and director of film and theater. Stephen Andrew Lynch, early motion picture industry pioneer.
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina.Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), the main residence, is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 [2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft (12,568 m 2 ...
Vanderbilt family. The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age. Their success began with the shipping and railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the family expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy. Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants went on to build grand mansions on Fifth ...
1060-3255. OCLC number. 24097281. Website. citizen-times.com. The Asheville Citizen-Times is a daily newspaper of Asheville, North Carolina. It was formed in 1991 as a result of a merger of the morning Asheville Citizen and the afternoon Asheville Times. It is owned by Gannett.
Eliada Home is a national historic district located near Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district originally encompassed 10 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites associated with a youth home complex in suburban Asheville. Of the original 10, only 5 remain. They included the early residential, administrative, and ...
77000995 [1] Added to NRHP. March 14, 1977. Zealandia is an historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1908, and is a three-story, "T"-plan, Tudor Revival style dwelling. It features a three-story porte cochere, projecting masses, steep gables, heavy wrought iron entrance gates, and massive chimneys.
75001243 [1] Added to NRHP. August 1, 1975. The Smith-McDowell House is a c. 1840 brick mansion located in Asheville, North Carolina. [2] It is one of the "finest antebellum buildings in Western North Carolina." [2] Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it was the first mansion built in Asheville and is the oldest surviving brick ...
Killing of Judy Smith. On September 7, 1997, hunters in North Carolina 's Pisgah National Forest found human bones, clothing, and some other items scattered in the woods near a campground. The remains, most of which were around a shallow grave, were identified as belonging to a woman between the ages of 40 and 55 with a seriously arthritic knee.