Battery Park Hotel, Battle Square, Asheville, NC : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Battery Park Hotel, Battle Square, Asheville, NC / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1923-1924, this Italian Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by William Lee Stoddart for Edwin Wiley Grove, replacing a previous hotel of the same name that stood on the site from 1886 until 1922. The previous hotel, a sprawling Queen Anne-style structure, was host to many notable guests during its existence, and stood atop Battery Porter Hill, which served as a Confederate artillery battery during the Civil War. The hill and hotel that once stood upon it were leveled to make way for the expansion of the commercial business district of Downtown Asheville, with the present hotel having a compact footprint to allow for the most efficient use of the increasingly valuable land. As part of the redevelopment of the site of the Battery Park Hotel, the Grove Arcade was constructed on the south side of Battle Square, and material from the hotel and the hill were used to fill in ravines along Coxe Avenue.The hotel, while it was in operation, saw several tragic incidents. The first notable tragic incident was on January 27, 1927, when Edwin Wiley Grove died at the hotel while overseeing the construction of the Grove Arcade across the street. The second notable incident occurred in Room 224 on July 17, 1936, when 19-year-old college student Helen Clevenger was found brutally murdered inside her hotel room by staff. A black man, 22-year old Martin Moore, who served as a hall boy at the hotel, was convicted of her murder and executed, though today it is unclear if he was actually guilty of the crime. The third incident occurred on September 4, 1943, when Clifton Alheit, a federal government official, fell from the roof to the ground below, in what is believed to have been suicide. Despite the tragedies, the hotel remained in operation until 1972, when it closed due to competition from newer hotels in the Asheville area.The 14-story building features a reinforced concrete structure, which is clad in red brick. The base of the building features red brick and limestone cladding, with limestone trim, two retail spaces on the ground floor under the front terrace, stone balustrades and pergolas with ionic columns at the front terrace, rusticated brick cladding at the base of the tower, which extends upwards to the fourth floor, three arched bays at the center of the second floor of the tower, six-over-six double-hung windows, and two three-story podiums flanking the T-shaped tower, which feature arched window bays and rooftop balustrades. Above the fourth floor, the tower features decorative trim surrounds at the windows on the fifth and sixth floors, which includes broken pediments on the fifth floor, cartouches between the fifth and sixth floors, decorative panels between windows on the fifth floor, and a pediment above the window at the central bay of the fifth floor. The central section of the tower, between the fifth and twelfth floors, is relatively plain, with window bays that line up with those below and above them, and brick quoins at the corners of the building. At the twelfth floor, several windows feature wrought iron railings, while at the thirteenth floor, the exterior is clad in tile, with limestone belt coursing at the sill line of the thirteenth floor windows, and a hipped bonnet red terra cotta tile roof with bracketed eaves sits at the two wings of the tower that end at the thirteenth floor. The fourteenth floor of the hotel features large arched window bays with limestone trim, cartouches, limestone ionic columns flanking the three bays on the south facade of the tower, wrought iron balconies at the bays on the south facade, a chimney at the northeast corner of the tower, and a red terra cotta tile bonnet roof with bracketed eaves at the top of the tower.The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and is a contributing structure in the Downtown Asheville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and adjusted to its present size in 2011. Today, the building serves as subsidized housing for senior citizens, with retail tenants on the ground floor along Battle Square.Author's Note: this building is listed as being "Classical Revival" in its National Register of Historic Places listing, but I disagree with this assessment. The building's design, though featuring some Classical elements, seems to draw more elements and inspiration from Italian Renaissance Architecture and is not really rigid enough in its proportions, placement of ornament, and window bay placement to be a Classical Revival building. Additionally, the use of broken pediments on the fifth floor, an element drawn from Baroque architecture, the heavily bracketed eaves of the roofs, which is drawn from Italian Renaissance architecture, and the ornate motifs on the trim at the fifth and sixth floors, which take the same shape as the front facade of an Italian Renaissance or Baroque church, are more Renaissance Revival in character than Classical Revival. Arched bays further suggest that Italian Renaissance architecture, which places heavy emphasis on arched bays, is the source of inspiration for the design of this building. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-07-03 14:40:46 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Asheville, North Carolina, United States 地図 |