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VOL. XXXII .- Thirty-two Years of Consecutive Service to the Public-1935
Containing an Alphabetically Arranged List of Business Houses and Private Citizens of Greater Asheville and Vicinity; giving full names (wives' names in parenthesis), occupation or pursuit, and addresses; a Mis- cellaneous Directory of City, County, State and Local United States Government; a Street Guide and Householders' Directory, indicating property owner ( denotes that occupant is owner of house), and the figure given at the end of name or end of street, represents the num- ber of people living in each house, and totals on each street, as taken by our enumerators.
Including Arco Gardens, Asheville School, Beverly Hills, Biltmore Forest, Bingham Heights, Buena Vista, Burnsville Hill, Chunn's Cove, Craggy, East Asheville, Elk Mountain, Emma, Enka, Haw Creek, Koon De- velopment, Lake View Park, Linwood Park, New Bridge, Oakhurst, Oakley, Oaklyn, Oteen, Richmond Hill, Sayles Bleacheries, Shiloh, South Biltmore, Spooks Branch, Violet Hill and Woodfin.
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GENERAL INDEX
GENERAL INDEX
Abbreviations 101
Alphabetical List of Names 101-648
Business Directory 671-756
Buyers' Guide 21-48
Calendar
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Census (see Street Directory)
Churches® 691
City Government 202
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Enka, N. C. Alphabetical List of Names 649-658
Fire Department 202
Hospitals 716
Miscellaneous Department 14-20
Oteen, N. C. Alphabetical List of Names 659-669
Preface
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Police Department
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Post Office Department 19
Sanitariums
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Secret and Fraternal Societies 748
State Government 18
Street and Householders' Directory 757-910
U. S. Local Government 19
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Allen Funeral Home. .right bottom lines and p 47 ..
American Business Club. .p 30 American Enka Corp .. Special Listings Asheville - Biltmore Hotel. right top lines and p 36
Ashevillle Chamber of Commerce .... .p 7 -10 Asheville Citizen-Times Co.
. back cover and p Y & Z Asheville Gas Co ..... Special Listings
Asheville Ice & Storage Co . front cover and p 37 Asheville Laundry .right bottom lines and p 39 Asheville Merchants Association. . p 22
Asheville Nehi Bottling Co.
left top lines
Asheville Photo Service. . p 41 Asheville Real Estate Board. p 31
Ashevillle Tire & Retreading Co.
... .
Asheville Welding Co.
.p 47
Atkinson Ed Coal Co .. Special Listings Better Health Foundation, Inc .. opp p 141
Biltmore Cleaners & Laundry, Inc ..
. Gold line back cover and p 26
Blue Bird Taxis, Inc.
.left bottom lines and p 46
Blue Ridge Bldg & Loan Assn .... p 24
Brownell-Dunn Co, Inc.
right top lines and p 35
(Continued on page 3)
p 23
County Government
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS-CON'T.
Carolina Electric Co, Inc.
.left bottom lines and p 34
Carolina Industrial Bank. 38 Carolina Mountain Health Associ -
ation
right top lines
. Special Listings Carver A Grady. . right top lines & p 44 Cash Coal Co p 32 Cazel Motor Co
.right top lines and p 23 Cecil's Business College Special Listings
Central M E Church South. p 25
Civitan Club. .p 23
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Special Listings Coleman & Adams, Inc ..
Special Listings
Collins Baking Co
Special Listings
Cosmic Club
.p 27
Crouch-Fox House Moving Co.
.p 40
Dysart Herbert W ..
.right top lines and p 43
Elks Club. .p 29 Enman's. . . Outside line back Cover .. and .p 35 Equitable Life Assurance Society ... Special Listings Ficken Harry Special Listings First Baptist Church. .p 25 First National Bank & Trust Co.
front cover & left top lines and p 24 First Presbyterian Church. p 25 Gardner Hospital. p 36 George Vanderbilt Hotel
.opp p 284 and p 37
Good Samaritan Mission. p 25 Gorham Gray Organization
.left bottom lines. and p 43 Groves Printing Co ... Special Listings Gudger B Frank & Co ..
right bottom lines and p 44 Hall Coal Co. 32
Harris-Matthews Electric Co. .p 34 Hayes & Lunsford Electric Shop, p 34 Henderson W Bowen. p 22 Hill's Market.
.. right bottom lines and p 40
Hotel Asheville
.p 37
Hotel Charmil
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Ingle Ray F. .p 46
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance ..
Co card at name Kiwanis Club p 28
Logan Samuel T
p 46
Long's Studio
.right bottom lines and p 41 M & M Restaurant Outside line front Cover & p 44 Melville's For Music .left top lines and p 10
Carolina Sheet Metal Works front cover and p 45 Miller Press. . right top lines, Carpenter - Matthew, Inc. . back cover and p 41 and 42 Minico's p 26
Moseley's Shoe Rebuilders.
P 45
Nash & Dalton.
p 41
National Realty Management Co.
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Noland, Brown Co, Inc ..
... Bottom line front Cover and p 35 Optimist 'Club .p 28
Poole's Dye Works, Inc. Left bottom lines and p 26 Reed & Abee, Inc. .right top lines and p 33
Rotary Club
p 27
Rutledge Insurance Agency.
p 38
St Lawrence Catholic Church.
... p 26
Schley John E.
. opp p 534 and p 38
Somers & Somers
. right top lines and card at name Southern Dairies left top lines and p 33 Stewart Electric Repair Co. .right top lines and p 34 Superior Coal Co. .. Front cover & p 32 Sutton H J & Co, Inc. p 35 Swannanoa Laundry
.. Gold Margin Front Cover and p 39 Thomas Buick Co. .. Top margin front cover & p 22 Vanderbilt George Hotel. .opp p 284 and p 37 Vanderhoof Arnold H.
Card at Classified Engineers-Civil Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. . Stencils and p 24
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co,
Ins Dept. p 38
Warren Electric Co. .left top lines and p 33
Welcome to Asheville, Inc.
. p 30
West Asheville Men's Club.
.p 29
West Asheville News
.p 2B
Western Carolina Ins Agency Special Listings
White & Morgan Co. left top lines and p 45 White's Monumental Works .right bottom lines and p 40
Whitworth Motor Co.
.p 23
Young Men's Christian Association ..
Langren Hotel .right bottom lines and p 22 left top lines and p 36 Youngblood Motor Co. Lions Club p 29 .right top lines and p 23
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SCENIC TOURS
SHORT SCENIC TRIPS
in and around Asheville
SUNSET MOUNTAIN (Round Trip Ten Miles)-Follow Charlotte Street, turn up Macon Avenue to entrance of Grove Park Inn; take Macadam Toll Road to right to the summit of Sunset Mountain, at an elevation of 3,200 feet, which provides a magnificent panorama of the entire city and surrounding mountains. Powerful field glasses brought from Germany during the war are available at the summit. Tolls, 50c for one-seat cars, and 75c for two-seat cars.
BEAUCATCHER MOUNTAIN "Under the Mountain, Then Over the Moun- tain" (Round Trip Five Miles)-Go out College Street and on up through the Tunnel; continue on about a mile to a paved road which doubles back sharply to the right. This is Beaucatcher Road which winds up over the ridge and provides a splendid view of Asheville. The Henry Art Museum is on this moun- tain and the entrance gate is to the right at the foot on the city side, above the mouth of the Tunnel.
ELK MOUNTAIN SCENIC HIGHWAY (Round Trip 25 Miles)-This is the most beautiful trip within an equal distance from Asheville. It offers a mar- velous variety of panoramic views. Do not fail to take this trip! Follow Mer- rimon Avenue to Beaverdam Road, the second road on the right just beyond Grace. About one mile out on this road turn left, to the ridge of the Elk Mountain Range. Continue along this road around the entire range, back to- ward Asheville past Mountain Meadows Inn, to to Beaucatcher Mountain.
THE GROVE PARK SECTION (Round Trip Ten Miles)-The Grove Park Section is entered from Charlotte Street, just beyond The Manor, both right and left of the road. It is most interesting with its beautiful homes, Saint Mary's Church, with its wayside Calvary Shrine is located at intersection of Charlotte Street and Macon Avenue; Grove Park Inn and Grounds, in which are located the Biltmore Industries where homespun cloth is woven and beau- tiful wood carving is done. We suggest that you continue on up past the Inn on the Sunset Mountain Toll Road to the summit.
KIMBERLY AVENUE SECTION (Round Trip Six Miles)-This a very short trip but well worth taking. Drive out Charlotte Street and turn left on Edwin Place opposite The Manor, bearing right into Kimberly Avenue. This avenue gives you beautiful views of Sunset Mountain, Grove Park Inn, Ashe- ville Golf and Country Club, and other senic delights.
LAKE VIEW PARK AND BEAVER LAKE (Round Trip Eight Miles)- This beautiful recreational and residential section in the northern part of the city combines many charms, both natural and man-made. It is reached by con- tinuing out Merrimon Avenue. At the end of the Lake a road to the left circles around the Lake.
BILTMORE FOREST (Round Trip 12 Miles)-Biltmore Forest is one of the outstanding residential sections of the South in the beauty of its layout and land- scaping, its views and the character of its homes. It was originally a part of the Biltmore Estate, where forestry in this country was born, and it has won- derful stands of white pine and other trees planted by the late George W. Vanderbilt about forty years ago. There is about ten miles of paved roads with beautiful trees and shrubbery and bordered by some of the finest homes in America. A drive through these roads is most enjoyable. The air is fragrant with evergreens and the perfume of flowers and shrubbery.
BILTMORE HOUSE AND GARDENS (Round Trip 15 Miles)-Reached by way of Biltmore-through Lodge Gate. (See pages 6-7 for detailed description.)
MUNICIPAL RECREATION PARK (Round Trip eight miles)-Go out College Street, through the Tunnel (or over Beaucatcher Mountain). About a mile beyond bear left on N.C. 10. The road parallels Swannanoa River. The Municipal Golf Coarse is passed on the left and the Recreation Park is just beyond that, on the right. Here, there is a huge swimming pool, ferris wheel and other carnival attractions; a zoo, playgrounds for children and a beautiful small lake where boating is enjoyed. A dancing pavilion is on the shore of the lake, and a first-class skating rink is nearby.
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ASHEVILLE FROM BEAUCATCHER MOUNTAIN
ASHEVILLE, N. C.
Asheville is the county seat of Buncombe County, and one of the principal resort centers of the eastern United States. The city has a population of 50,193 according to the United States Census of 1930. (Note: The 1935 Directory Census, taken on canvass by enumerators of The Piedmont Directory Co., give Asheville (within the city limits) a population of 50,525, and a population of 57,090 for Greater Asheville, or territory covered.
HISTORY
Asheville was founded in 1797 by John Burton, the city being known for about three years of its early history as Morristown. The name was later changed to Asheville, in honor of Samuel and John Ashe, noted men of that period.
The city has long been a resort center, the first resort hotel having been constructed near the Sulphur Springs in the western part of the city, west of the French Broad River. Later, the tour- ist traffic increased and other resort hotels were built, including the old Battery Park Hotel on the site now occupied by the mod- ern structure. Other hotels have been constructed with growth of
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tourist trade, through expansion of transportation facilities, includ- ing railways and highways into the highlands. Industry and ag- riculture have also developed in the mountain section, to the point that Asheville has become a marketing and shopping center for 18 counties of Western North Carolina.
GOVERNMENT
Buncombe County is governed by a board of three commis- sionerst Asheville has the council-manager form of government, which includes a mayor and six other councilmen and a city manager. The two govern- mental bodies are housed in the handsome city and county buildings which flank the cen- tral city plaza. The city has one of the lowest fire records of any city of its size in the country, due to an efficient fire department, and the police de- partment has become highly effective with the aid of radio, cooperation with the county law - enforcement officers and by means of the police-cruiser system.
COUNTY AND CITY BUILDNGS
TOURIST ATTRACTIONS
Scenic and other attractions of Asheville and Western North Carolina are always of paramount interest to visitors. The famous Biltmore House and Gardens, located in the midst of the 15,000- acre Biltmore Estate in Asheville, have been open to public view since 1930. The noted mansion, adjudged one of the finest private homes in the world, was constructed nearly half a ' century ago by the late George W. Vander- bilt. The House, built after the ar- chitect ural pattern of the French chateaux, contains a vast collec- tion of ob-
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jects of artistic and historic value, gathered at great cost by Mr. Vanderbilt, in all parts of the world. Notable among the priceless treasures on display are the chessmen of Napoleon, the ceremonial robes of Cardinal Richelieu, ancient tapestries which graced the tent of Francis I at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and a myriad other rare and precious objects.
Surrounding the House, the vast expanse of gardens and land- scaped park present a great mass of flowers and superbly designed vistas to the beholder throughout the spring, summer and au- tumnal seasons.
In Riverside Cemetery are located the tombs of the famous writer, O. Henry, of Zebulon Vance, war-time Governor of North Carolina, and the now-famous marker erected to the memory of 18 German sailors by members of the Kiffin Rockwell Post of the American Legion. This is the only monument ever erected by American soldiers to the memory of their foreign foes.
UNIQUE, GROVE PARK INN
Grove Park Inn, because of its unique setting and architecture is a point often visited in the city. Circling the summits of the mountains near the city, the Asheville Scenic Highway reveals surpassingly beautiful vistas to the motorist.
MOUNT MITCHELL, HIGHEST PEAK EAST OF THE ROCKIES
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In the surrounding highland region, the scenic beauty of the Sapphire Country, of Chimney Rock and Lake Lure, the Blowing Rock and Linville sections, the Tryon resort region, and the sections near Hendersonville and Waynesville are of interest to visitors.
Mount Mitchell, highest mountain in Eastern America, and Mount Pisgah in the Pisgah National Forest, may be climbed by the motorist.
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Asheville is the eastern gateway point to the Great Smoky Moun- tains National Park, the na- tion's newest and most popu- lar playground. This great scenic region with its majes- tic peaks and deep valleys, its vast ex- panse of virgin forests, its clear trout LOG CABIN IN THE SMOKIES streams and tumbling waterfalls is a center of interest for visitors. Over 420,000 visitors entered this national park last season. Ex- cellent highways connect Asheville with the Great Smokies and on the eastern ap- proach to the park is located the 60,000 acre reservation of the Eastern Band of Cher- okee Indians. Here live 3,000 Indians, occu- pying their an- cient hunting grounds, and pursuing their ancient crafts and customs, un-der super- vision of the Government.
THE CHIMNEYS, SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
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THE NATIONAL PARKWAY
Through Western North Carolina will be built the $16,000,000 National Park-to-Park Highway, connecting the Shenandoah Na- tional Park in Virginia with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Ten- nesee and North Caro- lina. This great tour- ing route, when com- pleted along the summits of the high- est of the Appalachian peaks, will be the finest highway in America.
THE INDIAN BALL GAME IS MORE STRENUOUS THAN ANY GAME OF THE WHITE MAN
SPORTS
Asheville and Western North Carolina comprise a region which is a paradise for outdoorsmen. In Asheville five golf courses, ad- judged among the finest to be found in the South, offer grass greens and fairways to the golfer. These include the courses of the
Asheville Country Club, the Biltmore Forest County Club, the Malvern Hills Golf Club, the Lake View Golf Club, and the Municipal Golf Links. Over a score of excellent courses are to be found in the resort centers of the highlands.
Tennis courts, swimming pools and other recreational facilities are provid . ed in Asheville. The City Recreation Park, with its huge outdoor pool, its lake for boating, its skating rink, its zoo and amusement devices, is a center of attraction.
MOUNT PISGAH AND THE RAT
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VIEW OF LAKE LURE AND THE VALLEY. THE TOP OF CHIMNEY ROCK IS IN THE FOREGROUND
TROUT FISHING
Over 70 artificial lakes, located in all parts of the Land of the Sky, provide op- portuniites for boating, sailing and fishing: Through the mountains many hundreds of miles of trails are open to the hiker and horseman. Streams of the region are well stocked in most cases with brook and rain- bow trout and the five game preserves in the Western North Carolina region, provide good hunting for deer in the surrounding terrain during the open hunting seasons. Bear, quail, rabbits and other small game are also plentiful in most of the moutain regions, and during the open season, nim- rods from practically every state in the Union come to this section. During the past two seasons, deer hunts have been held in the Pisgah National Game Preserve.
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BEAVER LAKE AND LAKE VIEW COUNTRY CLUB
CLIMATE
An unsurpassed climate, which combines light, cool, exhilarat- ing summers and mild winters, a large percentage of sunny days, mountain-protection from severe storms and a dry atmosphere, has long been a principal attraction of Asheville and the western por- tion of North Carolina. The health-giving qualities of this climate has been a factor in luring here many health-seekers in search of surcease from many different afflictions. Many sanatoria for the treatment of pulmonary and nervous afflictions are located in and near Asheville.
INDUSTRIES
In addition to the large volume of tourist trade, which the city en- joys, Asheville is a center for in- dustries. Located near here are the great rayon plant of the American Enka Corporation; the huge pulp and paper plant of the Champion Fibre Company, at Canton; the Sales Biltmore Bleach- eries; the Beacon Manufacturing AMERICAN ENKA PLANT Company, makers of Blankets; the Hans Rees Tannery ; the National Casket Company, and numerous other plants manufacturing mica products, hosiery, dimension lum- ber, furniture, food products, rayon garments, and other articles.
The native industries which produce homespun woolens, rugs, native pottery, native ironwork, and numerous other woven and manufactured articles, are noted throughout the country.
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AGRICULTURE
Western North Caro- lina is noted for its pro- duction of apples, Tryon grapes, cattle and Bur- ley tobacco. Asheville is a marketing center for these products, the city having four sales. warehouses for tobacco and an auction center for cattle and other farm animals. The re- gion is a general farm- ing area also, and many crops are produced. Timber is also a noted crop in the highlands.
TRADE AND COMMERCE
As the principal com- mercial center for 18 counties, Asheville is one of the most import- ant trade centers cf North Carolina, the city having rated second in retail trade in the state in recent compilations. As an indicator of prog- ress since the depres- sion, sales tax figures for four months of 1934 showed an average in- crease of 27 per cent in retail sales over the same months in 1933. In October, 1934 the in- crease was 53 per cent over October, 1933.
Due to its large trade area and the many hun- dreds of thousands of visitors touring West- ern North Carolina at all seasons of the year, the city has become one of the finest shopping centers in the South.
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Asheville's tourist season which extends throughout the year and reaches high peaks in the spring, summer and autumn, has inspired many events of unusual nature.
RHODODENDRON BLOSSOMS IN THE "LAND OF THE SKY"
The Rhododendron Festival held each year at the high point of the flowering season for the mountain rhododendron, is one of the most spectacular civic celebrations of the country. Presenting four colorful parades, a series of brilliant balls, spectacles and so- cial affairs, the Festival has earned international fame.
Each season the mountain folk of the highlands gather at Asheville to present their annual Mountain Folk Festival in August. an event which is unique in its presentation of folk music and folk dances.
Horse shows held in Asheville, Tryon and Blowing Rock, the Asheville Dog Show and the annual invitation golf tournaments at the Asheville and Biltmore Forest Country Clubs are events of major importance.
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