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G. W. McKibbin (November 21, 1860- August 6, 1927), a peripatetic and somewhat elusive architect and engineer who worked in Asheville and Atlanta, played his most important role in North Carolina architecture as the architect-engineer of the famed Grove Park Inn in Asheville. The design of the inn has been generally attributed solely to...
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Luther Launcelot Merchant (1876-1966), a contractor who was called a "construction pioneer" in Asheville, took a central role in building the city's notable early 20th century architecture. A native of Brooks, Indiana, he was the son of John and Eliza Jane Hess Merchant. The family moved to Henderson County, North Carolina in about 1885...
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Charles N. (Newton) Parker (October 29, 1885 -July 30, 1961), architect, practiced in Asheville for many years and is best known for the Grove Arcade complex built at the height of the city's pre-Depression boom era. A native of Ohio, he came to Asheville as a young man in 1900 and spent his career...
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James Albert Tennent (1842-1916) was a builder and architect active in Asheville's late 19th century boom years. One of many Confederate veterans who established a new life after the Civil War, he built important public buildings and houses from the 1870s onward, and continued into the early 20th century as the city's "dean" of...
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John A. (Adam) Wagner (July 16, 1836-December 5, 1924), a Union veteran and "pioneer builder" in Asheville, came to the mountain city in the 1880s and remained there for the rest of his long life. He was best known for constructing the original Battery Park Hotel (opened 1886), which was razed shortly before his...
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James Manassas Westall (September 11, 1861-January 1, 1943), a "pioneer builder" in Asheville, was a contractor who erected many of the city's railroad boom era buildings before retiring to operate a building supply business. He was one of several men from the "first families" of western North Carolina who became leaders in the building...
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Arthur J. (John) Wills (ca. 1867-1930 or later), a peripatetic English-born architect active in the United States and Canada for some forty years, planned several edifices in Asheville during the city's 1890s growth era, most notably the Asheville City Hall of 1890-1892. He was affiliated during parts of his career with his father James...
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Albert Carl Wirth (May 7, 1890-1930 or later), architect, moved to North Carolina from Buffalo, New York, in 1916 and designed buildings in a variety of styles, including commercial buildings, apartment houses, and automobile dealerships in Greensboro, High Point, and Asheville, then returned to Buffalo by 1930. Wirth was born in Buffalo to Philip C...
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