Partial view, Sherrill's Inn, Buncombe County, North Carolina
Sherrill's Inn (Buncombe County, N.C.)
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Item information
- Title:
- Partial view, Sherrill's Inn, Buncombe County, North Carolina
- Topics:
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Architecture
- Subjects:
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Houses
Inns
- Original Format:
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Black and white print (photograph)
- Extent:
- 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 in.
- Item identifier:
- bh0277p07
- Created Date:
- circa
- Genre:
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Architectural photographs
- Location:
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Buncombe County (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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Built Heritage
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- Historic Architecture Research. Project Records (UA110.041) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
- For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
- Funding:
- Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
Building: Sherrill's Inn (Buncombe County, North Carolina)
- Built:
- Community:
- Buncombe County
- State:
- North Carolina
- Provenance note:
- John Ashworth, early nineteenth century owner; Bedford Sherrill (innkeeper), mid-nineteenth century owner; McClure family, early twentieth century owner
- Architectural note:
- The structure consists of a two-story house connected to a 1790s log house by a twentieth century passageway. The home was restored in 1916.
- Historical note:
- The house is one of Buncombe County's earliest landmarks. Sherrill began operating the inn around 1840, and it was host to Zebulon Vance and Andrew Johnson. The property contains a nineteenth century apple orchard still run by the McClure family. Tradition suggests that the meathouse served as a frontier "fort" in the 1790s. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Location:
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Buncombe County (N.C.)
- Subjects:
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Historic buildings
Historic sites
Inns
National Register of Historic Places