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| Urban Trail Station #15: Marketplace: a basket of apples on wagon wheels (by Julia Burr) marks the time when produce markets and livery stables lined the street |
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| A Philips 76 gas station is now a Mellow Mushroom pizza place |
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| Urban Trail Station #16: Legacy of Design: somehow the "unbridled imagination" of a boy on stilts "captures the spirit" of architect Richard Sharp Smith, who designed many homes in Asheville, including some in Biltmore Village |
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| Center for Craft's Liminal (2019, by Ian Henderson and Shae Bishop) a 3-D mosaic |
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| Former Masonic Temple (1913-1915, by Richard Sharp Smith) |
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| Urban Trail Station #17: Woodfin House: a ceramic replica of Woodfin House (1840) that once stood across the street, including during the life of Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) |
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| Urban Trail Station #18: Wolfe's Neighborhood: a spot to view the neighborhood of author and Asheville native son Thomas Wolfe in the bronze rendering (designed by Tucker Cooke) and also the neighborhood of today, all while standing... |
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| ...in the Thomas Wolfe-sized footprints |
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| Urban Trail Station #21: On the Move: an art-in-motion wheel with Art Deco stampings honors the evolution of transportation in Asheville; however, spinning the wheel did not produce any sounds as had been promised |
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| Urban Trail Station #20: Curtain Calls: abstract metal sculptures (by Stan Blackstone) mark the history of the Asheville Community Theatre |
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| Thomas Wolfe Memorial includes his mother's boardinghouse (1883, in Victorian Queen Anne style) that she purchased in 1906 and was memorialized in Wolfe's novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929) |
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| Urban Trail Station #19: Dixieland: bronze dancing shoes (by Dan Millspaugh and Angel Cloer) mark the entrance to the boardinghouse of Thomas Wolfe's mother, named Old Kentucky Home, but called Dixieland in his novel, Look Homeward, Angel |
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| Original brick sidewalk outside the boardinghouse |
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| First Baptist Church (1925-1927, by Douglas Ellington, based on the cathedral and dome of Santa Maria del Fiore/ Duomo in Florence, Italy, but with Art Deco details) |
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| Base of a monument for the North Carolina 60th Regiment and Battle of Chickamauga was removed in 2020 |
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| Western North Carolina/WNC Veterans Memorial Seated Woman with Letter (2009, by Jodi Hollnagel-Jubran) |
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| WNC Veterans Memorial |
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| Buncombe County Courthouse (1924-1928, by Frank Milburn in Neoclassical Revival style) |
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| Urban Trail Station #25: Ellington's Dream: granite etching of the original plan of Douglas Ellington to have two Art Deco government buildings side-by-side; however, county officials opted for another architect for the courthouse |
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| City Building (1927, by Douglas Ellington in Art Deco style) |
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| Pack's Tavern (1907,1912 buildings) with a vintage 1932 Model A Ford Truck (KSS) |
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| Urban Trail Station #22: Civic Pride: a replica of the bronze bell that once rang from from the Asheville City Building (seen on R) |
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| Jackson Building (1924-1925, by Ronald Greene in Neo-Gothic style) |
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| Urban Trail Station #27: Monument Corner: bronze carving tools represent the tombstone shop of Thomas Wolfe's father, which was located where Jackson Building now stands |
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| Urban Trail Station #28: Brick Artisan: the cornucopias at the side entrance of the former City Market (1925-1926, by Ronald Greene) are attributed to an African-American brick mason, James Vester Miller |
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| Urban Trail Station #29: "The Block": a bronze relief (by Winston Wingo) depicting the heart of the African-American community in Asheville |
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| Young Men's Institute/YMI (1892-1893, by Richard Sharp Smith in English Tudor Cottage style) was partially funded by George Vanderbilt after African-American leaders approached him about the racial discrimination in Asheville and the need of a place for the Black workers who helped build Biltmore Estate |
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| Mount Zion Baptist Church (1919, by James Vester Miller in late Victorian Gothic style) |
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| Urban Trail Station #30: Hotel District: a bronze eagle (by Dan Millspaugh) represents the Eagle Hotel, the first of several hotels built on Buncombe Turnpike in the 1800s |
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| Coffee Bus/Double D's Coffee and Desserts (c 2009) |
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| Lunch was at Wicked Weed Brewpub (est 2012, building 1920s) |
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| Henry VIII said, “Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed.” |
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