All pictures are mine unless otherwise noted.
Museum: Biltmore House
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Architect: Richard Morris Hunt
Completed: 1895
Aerial view ( Source.)
Museum: Smith-McDowell House Museum
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Architect: Unknown -- possibly Ephraim Clayton
Completed: c. 1840
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Museum: Asheville Art Museum (Pack Library wing)
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Architect: Edward Tilton
Completed: 1925
A 16th Century frieze that decorates the lobby.
Museum: Asheville Art Museum (Pack Place wing)
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Architect: Barbara Field
Completed: 1992
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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