William A. Knight House (I)

Contributors:
Erle Stillwell, architect
Dates:

1924

Location:
Biltmore Forest, Buncombe County
Street Address:

Forest Rd., Biltmore Forest, NC

Status:

Standing

Type:

Residential

Images Published In:

William Mitchell, Buildings as History: The Architecture of Erle Stillwell. A Descriptive Catalogue of His Drawings in the Henderson County Public Library (2006).

Note:

The Mediterranean style house, one of the few by Stillwell in that mode, was built for Knight, a businessman from St. Augustine, Florida, and a founder of the Biltmore Forest community. About 1925 he commissioned a more elaborate residence by Stillwell, which was never built, perhaps because of the collapse of the Florida land boom in 1926. Knight had another house built in 1927 from plans by architect William W. Dodge (see William A. Knight House II).