Built 1926 (1926)-1929 NRHP Reference # 76001306 Added to NRHP 19 May 1976 | Built by Geary, John M., Co. Area 2 ha | |
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Location Battery Park, Battle Sq., Asheville, North Carolina Architectural styles Gothic Revival architecture, Tudor Revival architecture Similar Battery Park Hotel, Jackson Building, Basilica of St Lawrence, Thomas Wolfe House, Blue Ridge Mountains | ||
Arcade Building, also known as The Grove Arcade and Asheville Federal Building, is a historic commercial building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926-1929, and is a Tudor Revival / Late Gothic Revival style building consisting of two stacked blocks. The lower block is a rectangular slab with rounded corners; it is capped by the second block, a two-tier set-back. The steel frame and reinforced concrete building was designed to serve as a base for an unbuilt skyscraper. It features a roof deck with a bronze semi-elliptical balcony, molded terra cotta pilasters, and a ziggurat-like arrangement of huge ramps to the roof deck. The building occupies a full city block and housed one of America's first indoor shopping malls. It was sold to the federal government in 1943. The building housed the National Climatic Data Center until 1995.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is located in the Downtown Asheville Historic District.