The Victorian home in the Montford District was built in 1897 by O. D. Revell for Carolyn Gray. The Wilkinson family lived in the home by 1902. By 1922, it was divided into rental units. It became a bed and breakfast in 1995.
The Thomas Jarrett House is in the Falconhurst neighborhood of West Asheville, North Carolina. It was built in 1894 by Thomas Jarrett, a millwright for a nearby mill. The two-story I-house was built with Queen Anne influences. The home fell into disrepair, but the surrounding community raised funds to preserve it in 2006.
Jarrett House 23 Jul 2007, Mon Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, North Carolina) Newspapers.com
This distinctive Queen Anne was built in 1896 for B. A. Nowlin, a local merchant who owned a dry goods store in downtown. It is a contributing property to the Collinsville Historic District.
William Burroughs (Burrows) Smith was one of the wealthiest men in Charleston. He built his fortune as a cotton trader. When he died, he stayed in the receiving vault for two years while the pyramid designed by Edward Jones was built.
The Georgia School of Technology built the doors. During this time, Georgia Tech ran a contract shop where they would build items to specifications. These doors cost $300 to build. This shop only lasted until 1896.
The entryway illustrates several different symbols. The upside-down torches represent a “life extinguished. The hourglass at the top of the door represents time is ending. The wings combined with an hourglass means that our time is fleeting.
The Historic American Building Survey was commissioned to create the architectural drawings of the Mausoleum.
Located on E. Franklin Street, the Honeymoon Cottage was built in 1880 for Hettie Brown Brownlee, the new bride of Samuel Davis Brownlee. The Queen Anne Victorian home was built on three acres of land provided to the newlyweds by Hettie’s father, Elijah Webb Brown. The home stayed in the Brown-Brownlee family until 1955.
