The Grove Park Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 

 

Designed and developed by:

St. Louis entrepreneur Edwin Wiley Grove with the help of Chauncey Beadle, who is famous for his later work as a nursery man at the Biltmore Estate. It was the first neighborhood in Asheville to reject the grid system and adopt curvilinear streets dotted with parks and trees in a natural setting.

 

Born:

1908

 

Type of neighborhood

The Grove Park Historic district remains one of Asheville's most sought after residential areas. Here you will find examples of many architectural styles such as Georgian Revival, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Bungalow and Craftsman.  Local architects include Richard Sharp Smith, Ronald Greene, Henry I. Gaines, William N. Dodge, Jr., and  James Gamble Rogers among others