William_E._Breese_Sr._House

William E. Breese Sr. House

William E. Breese Sr. House

Historic house in North Carolina, United States

William E. Breese Sr. House is a historic house located at 674 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina.

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Description and history

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

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    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.


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