Asheville Urban Trail II (11/18/2021)

Thursday, November 18, 2021 (continued)

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

A Philips 76 gas station is now a Mellow Mushroom pizza place

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

Center for Craft's Liminal (2019, by Ian Henderson
and Shae Bishop) a 3-D mosaic

Former Masonic Temple (1913-1915, by Richard Sharp Smith)

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)

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...

...in the Thomas Wolfe-sized footprints

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

Urban Trail Station #20: Curtain Calls: abstract
metal sculptures (by Stan Blackstone) mark
the history of the Asheville Community Theatre

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)

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

Original brick sidewalk outside the boardinghouse

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)

Base of a monument for the North Carolina
 60th Regiment and Battle of Chickamauga
was removed in 2020

Western North Carolina/WNC Veterans
 Memorial Seated Woman with Letter
(2009, by Jodi Hollnagel-Jubran)

WNC Veterans Memorial

Buncombe County Courthouse (1924-1928,
by Frank Milburn in Neoclassical Revival style)

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

City Building (1927, by Douglas Ellington in Art Deco style)

Pack's Tavern (1907,1912 buildings) with a
vintage 1932 Model A Ford Truck (KSS)

Urban Trail Station #22: Civic Pride: a
replica of the bronze bell that once rang from
from the Asheville City Building (seen on R)

Jackson Building (1924-1925, by
Ronald Greene in Neo-Gothic style)

Urban Trail Stations #23, #24 and #26 were not marked correctly on the map.

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

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

Urban Trail Station #29: "The Block": a bronze relief
(by Winston Wingo) depicting the heart of the
African-American community in Asheville

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

Mount Zion Baptist Church (1919, by
James Vester Miller in late Victorian Gothic style)

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

Coffee Bus/Double D's Coffee and Desserts (c 2009)

Lunch was at Wicked Weed Brewpub (est 2012, building 1920s)

Henry VIII said, “Hops are a wicked and pernicious weed.”

Next: Asheville Art Museum.