Grove Park Historic District Explained

Grove Park Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:Roughly bounded by Evelyn Pl., Macon Ave., Howland Rd., Woodland Rd., Canterbury Ln., Charlotte St., and Murdock Ave.; also roughly Kimberly Ave. from Maywood St. to north of Evelyn Pl., including Grove Park Inn Country Club, Asheville, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.6106°N -82.5458°W
Built:-1913, 1914
Architect:Grove, Edwin Wiley; Beadle, Chauncey
Architecture:Colonial Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, Tudor Revival
Added:April 13, 1989, December 18, 1990 (Boundary Increase)
Refnum:89000247, 90001918 (Boundary Increase)

Grove Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 290 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a predominantly residential section Asheville. The planned suburban community was originally platted and developed in 1908-1913 and 1914. It includes representative examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow style dwellings. The community was laid out by noted landscape architect Chauncey Beadle. The Kimberly Amendment to Grove Park was an expansion made to the original Grove Park development in 1923. It includes the former Asheville Country Club, now the Grove Park Inn Country Club.[1] [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, with a boundary increase in 1990.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sybil A. Bowers and Carolyn Humphries. Grove Park Historic District. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . August 1988. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.
  2. Web site: Carolyn Humphries and Mary Hooper. Kimberly Amendment to Grove Park Historic District. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . n.d.. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.