Spinning Wheel (Asheville, North Carolina)

Spinning Wheel
The Spinning Wheel, September 2012
Location1096 Hendersonville Rd., Asheville, North Carolina
Coordinates35°32′7″N 82°31′41″W / 35.53528°N 82.52806°W / 35.53528; -82.52806
Arealess than one acre
Built1939 (1939)
Built byDodge, William Waldo Jr.
Architectural stylelog building
NRHP reference No.99000913[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 28, 1999

Spinning Wheel is a historic commercial building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1939, and is a one-story, "T" -shaped commercial building with three primary components. It consists of the side-gabled, single-pen log dwelling; a small frame hyphen called the dogtrot; and a frame "loom room". A cement block extension was added in 1945. The building was restored in 1998. The Spinning Wheel operated from 1939 to 1948 and provided education, employment, socialization, and a craft market for the traditional weaving women from the mountains around Asheville.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Martha Walker Fullington (November 1998). "Spinning Wheel" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.