Asheville City Building
1926-1928
70 Court Plaza, Asheville, NC
Standing
Public
Architectural Record, 64.2 (Aug. 1928).
Catherine W. Bishir, North Carolina Architecture (1990).
Catherine W. Bishir, Michael T. Southern, and Jennifer F. Martin, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina (1999).
Clay Griffith, “An Inventory of Douglas Ellington’s Architectural Work in Western North Carolina,” in Robert S. Brunk, ed., May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History and Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2 (2001).
Ellington’s drawings for the Asheville City Building are in the Edgar M. Lyda Collection, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville, and may be seen on the web. Ellington fashioned models of both the City Building and similar Buncombe County Courthouse. The models survive, although the county commissioners chose Milburn and Heister for the courthouse.
