Daily House ToursPresented by the Asheville Preservation Society
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Each
year, since the beginning of the Arts & Crafts Conference, the
Asheville-Buncombe County Preservation Society has organized a
three-hour afternoon bus tour that has included stops and interior
viewing of up to 4 homes of interest to Arts & Crafts attendees. Docents accompany each tour, both on the bus and inside each home, giving a brief history of Asheville and the homes on the tour.
The tour this year will feature a variety of properties of interest to Arts & Crafts Conference attendees. The E.W. Grove real estate office dates to the 1920s and was vacant for more than twenty years before it was restored as the office of the Preservation Society. In addition to its restored interior, a private collection of Arts & Crafts antique furniture and furnishings will be on display.
The Fortune family home, also dating to the 1920s was built in the colonial revival style. A former remodeling was unsympathetic to its historic character. The current owners completely renovated the interior in the Arts & Crafts style featuring reproduction fixtures and locally handcrafted architectural details. The furnishings include Stickley reproductions as well as custom made handcrafted furniture.
The Old Reynolds Mansion is the antebellum home of the Reynolds family whose most notable member was a Senator. It had long been neglected and fell to use as a barn before being restored as a bed and breakfast more than twenty years ago. It recently underwent a massive renovation that has brought it to a new level of elegance.
The cost of the tour is $35. To
register, send a check with your name, address and email, along with
your choice of either Saturday or Sunday, to:
The Preservation Society
Box 2806
Asheville, NC 28802.
The same three-hour tour will be held on Saturday and Sunday:
Saturday 1:00pm-4:00pm
Sunday 12:30pm-3:30pm
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