Oates House

Contributors:
Albert Heath Carrier, architect; Smith and Carrier, architects; Richard Sharp Smith, architect
Dates:

1913

Location:
Asheville, Buncombe County
Street Address:

90 Gertrude Pl., Asheville, NC

Status:

Standing

Type:

Residential

Images Published In:

Catherine W. Bishir, Michael T. Southern, and Jennifer F. Martin, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina (1999).

Note:

The unusually sophisticated house, built of fireproof concrete and stucco, was built for J. Rush and Dora Oates; he was vice-president of the Central Bank, for which Smith had also designed the Legal Building, of reinforced concrete. The postcard shows the Oates House in the upper right corner.