Buncombe County Courthouse

Contributors:
Kenneth McDonald, architect; John A. Wagner, builder
Dates:

1903

Location:
Asheville, Buncombe County
Street Address:

Pack Square, Asheville, NC

Status:

No longer standing

Type:

Public

Images Published In:

Daniel J. Vivian, “Public Architecture, Civic Aspirations and the Price of ‘Progress’: A History of the Buncombe County Courthouse,” in Robert S. Brunk, ed., May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History and Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2 (2001).

Note:

The courthouse built in 1903 from designs by Asheville architect Kenneth McDonald was a neoclassical edifice that replaced the courthouse of 1877 and was in turn replaced by another in the late 1920s (see **Frank P. Milburn**) and was razed in 1929.