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Southern Railway Passenger Depot (Asheville, North Carolina)

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architect
  
Hunt, Richard Morris

NRHP Reference #
  
79001684

Added to NRHP
  
15 November 1979

Built
  
1896 (1896)

MPS
  
Biltmore Village MRA

Opened
  
1896

Southern Railway Passenger Depot (Asheville, North Carolina)

Location
  
1 Biltmore Plaza, Asheville, North Carolina

Similar
  
Blue Ridge Mountains, Thomas Wolfe House, Botanical Gardens at Asheville, Folk Art Center, Smith‑McDowell House

Southern Railway Passenger Depot is a historic train station located at Biltmore Village, Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was designed by noted architect Richard Morris Hunt and built in 1896 for the Southern Railway. It is a one-story symmetrical structure with a low hipped roof, central porte cochere, wide overhanging eaves, half-timbering, and a pebbledash finish.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

Southern Railway Passenger Depot (Asheville, North Carolina) Wikipedia