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  • Collection: Picturing Asheville and Western North Carolina

Main building of the High Hampton Inn. The hotel captures a blend of natural building materials in keeping with being one of the most rustic inns of western North Carolina.

Small double cottage with stone fireplace chimney. Cottages near the inn are from various eras with some having chestnut-bark walls as this cottage.

'Back of Hotel Asheville. A four story brick-clad reinforced concrete structure. Recessed veranda on 2nd level, corbelled brick cornice and stepped gable showing former "The Rathskiller' restaurant on Walnut Street.

Dr. Meacham's sanitarium. The wards were built off to the side of this structure. The Spanish style brick building was covered in white stucco and was to be the finest private sanitarium ever built said Meacham.

Photo taken from Chimney Rock of tollgate, cottages, and road below. Snow covers everything.

'Lake Junaluska with wooden dock and rowboat in foreground. The Methodist conference center opened in 1913 and accomodates inns, cottages, and assembly facilities throughout a 250-man made lake. Notice the white cross up on the rocks.'

Passenger train with steam locomotive pouring out smoke, at Lake Junaluska station. The Methodist conference center opened in 1913 and accomodates inns, cottages, and assembly facilities throughout a 250-man made lake.

'St. Lawrence Catholic Church, a Roman Catholic Church was dedicated in 1909 and was not designated a basilica until 1996. It was built in the Spanish Baroque Revival style.'

Exterior of cottages at Camp Kanuga at Kanuga Lake assembly grounds in Hendersonville, NC. These were desinged by Richard S. Smith and are forest green with white trim and able to accommodate various slopes.

Kanuga Lake with clubhouse (built 1908-09) of the summer assembly (Episcopal Church) in background. The clubhouse would be replaced by the Kanuga Lake Inn in 1968.
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