William E. Breese Sr. House
William E. Breese Sr. House | |
.jpg) William E. Breese Sr. House (Swannanoa Hill Mansion), January 2019 | |
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| Location | 674 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°34′23″N 82°32′44″W / 35.57306°N 82.54556°W |
| Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
| Built | 1891 |
| Architect | Leonard, Charles B. |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference No. | 80002803[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 28, 1980 |
William E. Breese Sr. House is a historic house located at 674 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
Description and history[edit]
It was built in 1891 by architect Charles B. Leonard, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular timber-framed dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It features an off-center entrance tower with a steeply pitched pyramidal roof. The building housed a sanatorium, called Sherwood Sanatorium, from around 1927 to 1932. After 1939, the building housed a tourist home known as Cedar Crest.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1980.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Michael Southern and John Ager (January 1980). "William E. Breese Sr. House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
External links[edit]
Media related to William E. Breese, Sr., House at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Queen Anne architecture in North Carolina
- Houses completed in 1891
- Houses in Asheville, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Buncombe County, North Carolina
- Buncombe County, North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs