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West Asheville becomes part of the city of Asheville. Nov. 16, a fire at Catholic Hill School for Colored Children killed seven and destroyed the building. Considered to be one of the worst disasters in Asheville history. [8] 1920 – Population: 28,504. 1922 – Imperial Theatre in business. [15] 1924 – Hi-rise Jackson Building constructed.
Notable buildings include the separately listed Bledsoe Building, along with the Isis Theater (1937), Franklin Building (1923), Pure Oil Station (1947), Wells Building (1917), Palace Theater (1928), Great A&P Tea Company (1926), and West Asheville Post Office (1929). [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. [1]
Most of the district's 600 buildings—primarily residences—were constructed between 1890 and 1920. The people who bought lots and built in the Montford area in its building prime were for the most part middle class individuals who carried out the day-to-day activities of the city—businessmen, lawyers, doctors, and a few architects.
The chain was owned by Wilmington-based H.T. Restaurants Inc. Most locations were found in malls and some were two-level structures with elaborate and ornate interior designs featuring special theme-seating. Annabelle's began in 1973 as a single restaurant in Wilmington, NC. It was first named Tuesday's (no affiliation with Ruby Tuesday's). It ...
The inn's 140 acres includes 513 guest rooms, 10 restaurants and bars, an 18-hole golf course, subterranean spa, 42 meeting rooms, two ballrooms, two swimming pools, and nine tennis courts. [1] [2] The Grove Park Inn is a member of the Historic Hotels of America program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Earlier this year, we asked readers which closed Raleigh restaurants they’d bring back if they could. They didn’t hold back. Now, with news that the original Hillsborough Street Char-Grill ...
City Bakery (Downtown) On Aug. 12, City Bakery closed its downtown store at 60 Biltmore Ave., which opened in 2004. The local, family-owned eatery, founded in 1999, still operates its original ...
Australians advised to avoid Canada's example of "disunion" as they consider federation [4] British socialist newspaper decries "that venerable fraud and child kidnapper, Doctor Barnardo" shipping boys to Canada [5] Victoria, B.C. Free Public Library has popular novels of Scott, Dickens, Trollope and Thackeray, and also Bulwer, Yonge, Braddon ...