Asbury, Louis H. (1877-1975)

Louis H. (Humbert) Asbury, Sr. (October 15, 1877-March 19, 1975), a leading Charlotte architect, was the first professionally trained, fulltime architect in North Carolina who was born and practiced in the state. (See also Gaston Alonzo Edwards.) Asbury established a long-lived and prolific practice in Charlotte, with projects across much of the state, especially the Piedmont. His work encompassed most of his era’s popular styles but he was especially known for his quietly elegant works in the Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Neoclassical Revival modes. Late in his career he worked in association with his son, Louis, Jr., and the firm produced several modernist designs.

The son of Charlotte building contractor S. J. Asbury and Martha Moody Asbury, as a youth Louis helped his father in his building business. He was graduated from Trinity College (later Duke University) in 1900 and then completed a special two-year course in architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1903. He began work as a draftsman for the firm of Rossiter and Wright in New York City and then worked for Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson, of Boston, where he remained until 1908 (see Ralph Adams Cram). During 1906 young Asbury and a friend bicycled across Europe to study architecture, including the Gothic churches of England, France, and Italy. In 1908 Asbury returned to Charlotte where he began his own architectural firm, one of numerous architects and builders ready to design and build for the fast growing New South city.

Asbury was an important early leader in the state’s architectural profession. The first native of North Carolina to be elected to the American Institute of Architects (September 28, 1908), he was endorsed for membership by his employer, Ralph Adams Cram, and two others in Boston and assigned to the AIA category of Chapter at Large, encompassing members “who live in isolated places.” As the sole AIA member in the state, he took a leading role in organizing the North Carolina chapter (see Glenn Brown), which was chartered in 1913. One of the group of five men who met in Greensboro to form the chapter on September 16, 1913, Asbury served as vice president of the new chapter, along with president Hill C. Linthicum and secretary-treasurer Willard C. Northup (see Northup and O’Brien). Asbury also served on the board of directors of the older North Carolina Architectural Association, which included mainly architects from Charlotte and Western North Carolina.

After North Carolina’s architectural licensing act was passed in 1915, Asbury was among the first men licensed to practice, receiving certificate #4 in the initial group of architects who were licensed based onpractice prior to 1915. (Only Will Armfield, Michael Heister, and Frank Pierce Milburn were listed before him.) An active member of the city’s civic and social life, Asbury served as a city councilman and a member of the board of adjustment and was a founder of Myers Park Methodist Church, for which he designed a Gothic Revival style church. This was one of many prestigious commissions for Asbury in his native city. On April 30, 1908, Asbury married May Crosby of Boston. Their son, Louis H. Asbury, Jr., attended Duke University and present North Carolina State University, joined his father’s practice shortly before World War II, and later practiced on his own. During his long career, Asbury influenced many other architects, including those who worked in his office such as Charlotte’s Jack Boyte and others.

Asbury was one of Charlotte’s, and North Carolina’s, leading architects in the 1910s and 1920s. Three of his buildings won honor awards from the North Carolina chapter of the AIA: the Mecklenburg County Courthouse in 1929, the first year the awards were given: Myers Park United Methodist Church in 1930, and St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Brevard in 1931, the last year of the awards before the program was discontinued until after World War II. Typical of the architects of his day, Asbury’s practice encompassed many types of buildings from skyscrapers and major public edifices to moderate sized houses, commercial buildings, and gas stations. Schools, churches, and civic buildings constituted a substantial proportion of his work. He was accomplished in a range of revivalist styles in the Beaux-Arts tradition. For much of his career he typically employed neoclassical and “colonial” modes along with Tudor and Gothic Revival designs, though late in his career he adopted modernist styles as well. Although he designed buildings in whatever styles his clients preferred, his own preference was for the Gothic Revival, which he employed for several local churches, including the brick, auditorium plan Hawthorne Lane United Methodist Church (1915) and for his own congregation, the large, stone Myers Park United Methodist Church (1928).

Much of his work was concentrated in Charlotte, where he gained commissions for a wide range of buildings including some of Charlotte’s most important civic buildings and skyscrapers of the period. The Charlotte Observer commented, “As one of the city’s first professional architects, he helped design the town. His professional career spanned from . . . 1908 when Charlotte was a town of 25,000 people to the mid-1950’s when it had become a city of almost 200,000.” Although subsequent growth has destroyed some of his key works, many remain standing as a central part of the city’s early to mid-20th century legacy.

Especially important was Asbury’s role in defining the architectural character of downtown Charlotte at a time when the city was essentially rebuilding the busy and prestigious central zone around the crossing—called The Square—of Trade and Tryon Streets. In 1913 he designed a neoclassical façade for the Southern Loan and Savings Bank on South Tryon Street. In the early 1920s he designed the five-story Efird’s Department Store, one of the flagship department stores that made Charlotte a shopping mecca, as well as the eight-story Professional Building. He followed these with the Law Building (ca. 1926) and the Mayfair Manor Hotel (1929), and two of Charlotte’s chief landmarks—the city’s tallest skyscraper of its day, the First National Bank (1927) and the imposing, neoclassical Mecklenburg County Courthouse (1928).

Complementing Asbury’s downtown edifices were residences in the city’s growing suburbs, in which he employed both Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles. Asbury’s earliest works had been residential, such as the R. M. Miller, Jr., House (1908) near downtown. As Charlotteans moved outward into streetcar and automobile suburban developments, Asbury was one of several architects who designed the residences that lined the tree-shaded, curving streets. The E.R. Cannon House and F. W. Bradshaw House exemplify the Tudor Revival favored by several Charlotte clients and architects. Other residences display the foursquare form with deep porches and Colonial Revival or Craftsman details, as typified by the Bishop John Kilgo House, built for a Methodist bishop and educator as one of the first houses in the suburb called Chatham Estates, now Plaza-Midwood. Asbury also designed numerous residences in the exclusive Myers Park suburb. Among the largest was the Henry M. McAden House (1917-1918), built for the president of the First National Bank as an expansive and symmetrical stuccoed residence with clean lines, restrained classical details, and a tile roof. The elaborate garden was planned by Earle Sumner Draper, landscape designer for clients throughout Myers Park.

Like other architects of his day, Asbury found a regular source of commissions in the many public schools constructed during the state-wide school building campaign of the 1920s, when investment mounted in modern, consolidated schools. In Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, after the county authorized expenditure of a million dollars for new schools, in 1924 the county commissioned two educational experts, Drs. Strayer and Engelhardt of New York, to recommend sites for six schools and to serve as consulting architects. Asbury was the principal local architect, planning at least four of the six schools from the New Yorkers’ recommendations: Wilmore School, Seversville School, Morgan School, and Parks Hutchison School.

Beyond Charlotte, Asbury designed numerous buildings in the western Piedmont and foothills, including Concord, Morganton, Rutherfordton, and Salisbury. One of his largest and earliest major projects was the Stonewall Jackson Training School (1908-1940) near Concord, where he designed the major buildings in red brick with classical detailing. The Stonewall Jackson Training School Chapel (1913), however, was one of his early examples of his favored Gothic Revival style, in which he used local stone for the modest, picturesque building to complement the natural stone outcroppings of the setting.

In communities throughout the region, he planned neoclassical civic buildings, such as the Rutherford County Courthouse; residences in Colonial Revival and other styles for prominent industrialists and other wealthy clients; and schools large and small. One of his grandest residences outside Charlotte is Eastover (1934), a Tudor Revival country house outside Salisbury, rendered in Tudor Revival style. He also designed numerous churches in the region, including both urban and rural churches for various denominations and for black and white congregations. He planned several Lutheran and Reformed churches for congregations of German background in the western Piedmont, typically in the denomination’s preferred red brick, Gothic Revival style with bold white accents. In other cases he designed in local stone, such as St. Philip’s Episcopal Church (1927) in Brevard, the prize-winning building constructed in Norman Revival style by local stonemasons Fred Mills and the Wright Brothers.

In the 1930s, financial problems forced Asbury into bankruptcy, and he closed his office in 1935 and found work with the Federal Housing Authority in Asheville and Greensboro in 1935 and 1936. After this, he reopened his firm in Charlotte and brought his son, Louis Asbury Jr., into the business in 1939. During World War II he closed the office again and from 1942 to 1945 worked for the Army Post Engineers in Greensboro, then reopened his firm in 1945. During the post-World War II period, the firm of Louis H. Asbury and Associates produced a number of modernist designs, including the 9-story Doctors Building (1950) in Charlotte and residences in Charlotte suburbs. Asbury retired in 1956 and died in Charlotte on March 19, 1975. His funeral was held at the Myers Park Methodist Church, which he had designed. He was the last surviving member of the founders of the North Carolina Chapter of the AIA.

The collection of his papers at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte contains some 11,000 items including 300 sets of architectural drawings. The building list here is selective, highlighting some of his best known works and the stylistic and geographical range of his practice. For a complete list, see the finding guide for the Louis H. Asbury Papers, 1906-1975, Special Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina. A thorough monograph on Asbury and his work is much needed.

  • Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina (2003).
  • Stewart Gray, “First National Bank Building,” research report, Historic Charlotte Historic Properties Commission.
  • Jane Hall, “Founding Fathers NCAIA, 1913-1954,” Southern Architect (1954), reproduced in C. David Jackson and Charlotte V. Brown, History of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1913-1998 (1998).
  • Mary Norton Kratt and Thomas W. Hanchett, Legacy: The Myers Park Story (1986).
  • Louis H. Asbury Papers, 1906-1975, Special Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina.
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  • A. C. Chafee House

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1919

    Location:
    Morganton, Burke County
    Street Address:

    310 W. Union St., Morganton, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Residential

    Images Published In:

    J. Randall Cotton, Suzanne Pickens Wylie, and Millie M. Barbee, Historic Burke: An Architectural Inventory of Burke County, North Carolina (1987).

    Note:

    The Colonial Revival brick residence is one of several Morganton houses designed by Asbury, including a number in the West Union Street area.


  • A. M. Kistler House

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, attributed architect
    Dates:

    Ca. 1927

    Location:
    Morganton, Burke County
    Street Address:

    502 W. Union St., Morganton, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Residential

    Images Published In:

    J. Randall Cotton, Suzanne Pickens Wylie, and Millie M. Barbee, Historic Burke: An Architectural Inventory of Burke County, North Carolina (1987).


  • Bethel Bear Creek Reformed Church

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1928

    Location:
    Stanly County
    Street Address:

    SR 1428, Bethel Bear Creek Community, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Religious

    Note:

    Unusually large and stylish for a country church, the Gothic Revival style brick church was built for an old German congregation in an area settled in the 18th century.


  • Bishop John C. Kilgo House

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect; J. A. Jones, builder
    Dates:

    1914-1915

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    2100 The Plaza, Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Residential

    Note:

    A prominent landmark of the Plaza-Midwood neighborhood, the 2-story frame house combines Colonial Revival and Craftsman style elements. It was built by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as the residence of its bishop, John C. Kilgo (1861-1922), who had previously been president of Trinity College (later Duke University) in Durham. See Mattson Alexander Associates, Bishop John C. Kilgo House National Register of Historic Places nomination (2007).


  • Central United Methodist Church

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, attributed architect
    Dates:

    1924

    Location:
    Shelby, Cleveland County
    Street Address:

    20 N. Washington St., Shelby, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Religious


  • Cliffside School

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1920- 1921

    Location:
    Cliffside, Rutherford County
    Street Address:

    N. Main St., Cliffside, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Educational

    Note:

    The brick school, which cost a quarter of a million dollars, was built with support from the Haynes family of industrialists who led in the development of the mill and mill town of Cliffside and other industrial sites in Rutherford County.


  • Cool Springs High School

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1925

    Location:
    Forest City, Rutherford County
    Street Address:

    382 W. Main St., Forest City, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Educational


  • Doctors Building

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1950-1951

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    S. Kings Dr., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    No longer standing

    Type:

    Health Care

    Note:

    The multi-storied, suburban office building was one of the Asbury firm’s most notable modernist designs.


  • E. R. Cannon House

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    Ca. 1919

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    1107 Queens Rd., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Residential

    Note:

    The Cannon House is one of several richly detailed Tudor Revival residences Asbury designed; it features red brick, stone, and half-timbering.


  • Eastover

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Variant Name(s):

    Hearne Swink House

    Dates:

    1934

    Location:
    Salisbury, Rowan County
    Street Address:

    S. Main St. (US 29/601), Salisbury vicinity, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Residential

    Images Published In:

    Davyd Foard Hood, The Architecture of Rowan County North Carolina: A Catalogue and History of Surviving 18th, 19th, and Early 20th Century Structures (1983).

    Note:

    The Tudor Revival country house built outside Salisbury was one of Asbury’s most opulent Depression-era projects. It was one of at least sixteen Asbury projects for Rowan County clients.


  • F. W. Bradshaw House

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1920s

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    2200 Selwyn Ave., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Residential

    Images Published In:

    Mary Norton Kratt and Thomas W. Hanchett, Legacy: The Myers Park Story (1986).


  • First National Bank

    Contributors:
    Dates:

    1926-1927

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    112 S. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Commercial

    Images Published In:

    Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina (2003).

    Note:

    The skyscraper, called in 1927 the tallest building in the Carolinas, was one of several competing tall buildings in Charlotte, and among the few survivors of the city’s early 20th century skyscrapers.


  • Greater Bethel A. M. E. Zion Church

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1928

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    201 Grandin Rd., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Religious

    Note:

    The red brick church features an unusual Florentine inspired façade.


  • Hawthorne Lane United Methodist Church

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect; J. A. Jones, builder
    Dates:

    1915-1916

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    501 Hawthorne Lane, Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Religious

    Note:

    The red brick church in Gothic Revival style features an Akron plan, with movable partitions separating the auditorium-plan sanctuary and adjoining Sunday school rooms.


  • Henry M. McAden House

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1917-1918

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    920 Granville Rd., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Residential

    Note:

    Henry M. McAden, and industrialist and banker, built the unusually expansive, stuccoed house as one of the first large residences in the Myers Park suburb. McAden subsequently employed Asbury to design his First National Bank in downtown Charlotte. The house and garden were featured in the magazine Southern Architect in 1924.


  • Ivey's Department Store

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect; J. A. Jones, builder
    Dates:

    1914

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    N. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    No longer standing

    Type:

    Commercial

    Note:

    The Charlotte News of September 17, 1914, cited Asbury as architect and Jones as contractor for the new J. B. Ivey and Company store built in that year. It was followed in 1924 by a new Ivey’s store designed by William H. Peeps, which is the only one of Charlotte’s downtown department stores still standing.


  • J. Archibald Cannon House

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1912

    Location:
    Concord, Cabarrus County
    Street Address:

    108 N. Union St., Concord, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Residential

    Images Published In:

    J. Randall Cotton, Suzanne Pickens Wylie, and Millie M. Barbee, Historic Burke: An Architectural Inventory of Burke County, North Carolina (1987).

    Note:

    Asbury designed several fine Colonial Revival houses for industrialists and others along Concord’s prestigious N. Union St.


  • Law Building

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1926

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    E. Trade St., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    No longer standing

    Type:

    Commercial


  • Lutheran Chapel Church

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1923

    Location:
    Gastonia, Gaston County
    Street Address:

    702 N. New Hope Rd., Gastonia vicinity, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Religious

    Note:

    The red brick church of Gothic Revival style typifies many Lutheran churches of the time with its bold details and large entrance tower.


  • Mayfair Manor Hotel

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Variant Name(s):

    Dunhill Hotel

    Dates:

    1929

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    237 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Commercial


  • Mecklenburg County Courthouse

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1926-1928

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    700 E. Trade St., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Public

    Note:

    Soon after Charlotte erected the large, stone Charlotte City Hall by architect C. C. Hook (1923-1925) in imposing neoclassical style, the county commissioned Asbury to plan a courthouse of equal stature, with a long colonnade set in antis. This was one of Asbury’s most important commissions in Charlotte. It received an award from the North Carolina chapter of the AIA in 1929.


  • Myers Park United Methodist Church

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1929-1930

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    Providence Rd. and Queens Rd., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Religious

    Images Published In:

    C. David Jackson and Charlotte V. Brown, History of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1913-1998 (1998).

    Note:

    The church won an award from the North Carolina chapter of the AIA in 1930.


  • Norris Public Library

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1933

    Location:
    Rutherfordton, Rutherford County
    Street Address:

    132 N. Main St., Rutherfordton, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Educational

    Note:

    The red brick building with restrained classical details exemplifies Asbury’s Depression era work. He designed several other buildings in Rutherford County as well.


  • Old Advent Christian Church

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1919-1920

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    101 N. McDowell St., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Altered

    Type:

    Religious


  • Old Mount Carmel Baptist Church

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1918

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    412 Campus Dr., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Religious

    Note:

    The congregation members are said to have built the red brick, Gothic Revival church themselves from Asbury’s plans. It is a landmark of the Biddleville community associated with Johnson C. Smith University.


  • Parks Hutchison School

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    Ca.1924

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    1400 N. Graham St., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Educational

    Note:

    This was one of at least four schools Asbury designed in the Mecklenburg County school-building program established in 1924.


  • Professional Building

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect; J. A. Jones, builder; J. A. Jones Construction Company, builders
    Dates:

    1925

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    Tryon St. and 7th St., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    No longer standing

    Type:

    Commercial


  • Rutherford County Courthouse

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1926

    Location:
    Rutherfordton, Rutherford County
    Street Address:

    N. Main St., Rutherfordton, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Public


  • Solomon and Shirley Levine House

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect; Louis H. Asbury and Son, architects; Jack Boyte, architect
    Dates:

    1952

    Location:
    Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
    Street Address:

    2300 Cloister Dr., Charlotte, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Residential

    Note:

    The modernist residence was one of several planned by the Asbury firm after World War II and was specifically the work of Jack Boyte, then a young architect in the Asbury office. Boyte later established his own extensive practice.


  • St. James Reformed Church

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1923

    Location:
    Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus County
    Street Address:

    N. College St. at Walnut St., Mount Pleasant, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Religious

    Images Published In:

    J. Randall Cotton, Suzanne Pickens Wylie, and Millie M. Barbee, Historic Burke: An Architectural Inventory of Burke County, North Carolina (1987).


  • St. Philip's Episcopal Church

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect; Marshall Kilpatrick, builder; Fred Mills, stonemason; Wright Brothers, stonemasons
    Dates:

    1926-1928

    Location:
    Brevard, Transylvania County
    Street Address:

    317 E. Main St., Brevard, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Religious

    Images Published In:

    Laura A. W. Phillips and Deborah Thompson, Transylvania: An Architectural History of a Mountain County (1998).

    Note:

    The large house with a complex roofline has walls of uncoursed rock-faced granite with beaded mortar joints of light brown concrete. The gray stone is subtly variegated with feldspar, mica, and quartz. There is a cottage of similar stonework. Charles E. Orr, a native of Pennsylvania, was a prominent local citizen by at least 1902 and served as postmaster. The stone building is attributed to William (“Dock”) Wright, the eldest of the Wright brothers, and Joseph Few (“Joe”) Wright, the youngest. It stands across the street from the Wright brothers’ St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, which was under construction at the same time, and it displays the same type of stone, which had come from the private quarry of William Breese. By this period, Fred Mills was working with the Wrights. See Clay Griffith, Charles E. Orr House, National Register of Historic Places nomination, 2006.


  • Stonewall Jackson Training School

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1908-1940

    Location:
    Concord, Cabarrus County
    Street Address:

    SR 1157 N of NC 49, Concord vicinity, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Educational

    Images Published In:

    Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina (2003).
    Peter R. Kaplan, The Historic Architecture of Cabarrus County, North Carolina (2004).

    Note:

    Asbury’s single largest project, the campus buildings were erected over several years in a unifying red brick Colonial Revival style. The first cottages were designed by Asbury near the start of his career in Charlotte, and he continued to plan buildings for the school for many years. The photograph shows the Stonewall Jackson Training School Chapel.


  • Stonewall Jackson Training School Chapel

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    1913

    Location:
    Concord, Cabarrus County
    Street Address:

    SR 1157 N of NC 49, Concord vicinity, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Religious


  • Switzerland Inn

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury, architect
    Dates:

    Ca. 1910

    Location:
    Little Switzerland, McDowell County
    Street Address:

    Little Switzerland, NC

    Status:

    No longer standing

    Type:

    Recreational

    Note:

    The rustic, chestnut bark shingled hotel was planned by Asbury for the developing resort community of Little Switzerland, a mountain retreat developed by Charlotte investors and favored by Charlotteans.


  • Yadkin Hotel

    Contributors:
    Louis H. Asbury; Oliver Duke Wheeler, architect (1913); Wheeler and Stern, architects (1913)
    Dates:

    1913; 1922 [addition]

    Location:
    Salisbury, Rowan County
    Street Address:

    Depot St. and Council St., Salisbury, NC

    Status:

    Standing

    Type:

    Commercial

    Images Published In:

    Davyd Foard Hood, The Architecture of Rowan County North Carolina: A Catalogue and History of Surviving 18th, 19th, and Early 20th Century Structures (1983).


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