Asheville station

Southern Railway Passenger Depot
Southern Railway Passenger Depot, August 2012
Asheville station is located in North Carolina
Asheville station
Asheville station is located in the United States
Asheville station
Location1 Biltmore Plaza, Asheville, North Carolina
Coordinates35°34′3″N 82°32′34″W / 35.56750°N 82.54278°W / 35.56750; -82.54278
Arealess than one acre
Built1896 (1896)
ArchitectHunt, Richard Morris
MPSBiltmore Village MRA
NRHP reference No.79001684[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 15, 1979

Southern Railway Passenger Depot is a historic train station located at Biltmore Village, Asheville, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt and built in 1896 for the Southern Railway. It is a one-story symmetrical structure with a low hipped roof, central porte cochere, wide overhanging eaves, half-timbering, and a pebbledash finish.[2]

The station replaced a smaller building that preceded Cornelius Vanderbilt's purchase of land to comprise the Biltmore Estate. [3]

The Southern Railway Depot on Depot St. in Asheville was closed in 1968 due to costs and was demolished in early 1969. [4] After this the Biltmore station served as Asheville's station until passenger train service was discontinued in early August of 1975. [5] The station now houses a restaurant.[6] If passenger service to Asheville is restored, a new station will be built.[7]

The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ H. McKelden Smith (August 1976). "Biltmore Village Survey: Southern Railway Passenger Depot" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  3. ^ "Southern Railway Passenger Depot (Biltmore Depot)". National Park Service. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  4. ^ https://www.citizen-times.com/story/life/2015/02/05/portrait-past-southern-railway-passenger-station/22925973/
  5. ^ "Asheville Special". American Rails. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  6. ^ "Our Story". Retrieved 2022-02-04.
  7. ^ "Historic Biltmore Village to Get New Train Station Behind the Old Depot". asheville.com. Retrieved 2022-02-04.