The beautiful Craftsman home, built in 1918 and designed by noted architect Richard Sharp Smith, is in the Kenilworth neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina. Sharp was a key architect at the Biltmore and for the Biltmore Village. The Village was one of the areas decimated during Hurricane Helene.
The Whitlock Lipinsky family was the first to live here, and they continued to live here for several decades but under a different name. While researching the house’s history, I noted the mentions of the Lewinskys and the Lees. It wasn’t until I dove into census records that I realized that sometime between 1920 and 1930, the Lipinsky family changed their name to Lees. Using newspaper mentions, I narrowed it down between 1927 and 1930.
By 1948, the address is being advertised as the “Sherwood Inn.” Apparently, you can still see the numbers from the old inn on some of the bedroom doors. Note to the right of the house is an old trolley car. It was an original car to the Asheville trolley system.
Images of the home’s interior are in an old real estate listing.