BGuthrie Photos: NC -- Asheville -- Thomas Wolfe House (Memorial)

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. TWHOME_211011_001.JPG: Station #18 - Wolfe's Neighborhood You can vault time zones by standing in the indicated footsteps, large enough for Thomas Wolfe's large shoes. The bronze three-dimensional renderings by Susan Higgins and Kate Cohn allow you to "see through" to today's neighborhood across the street with the eclectic neighborhood of Wolfe's boyhood portrayed in the foreground ~ a mishmash of public and private buildings, including a school, a synagogue and a hospital. (Renderings conceptualized and designed by Tucker Cooke of UNCA.)
2. TWHOME_211011_013.JPG: To share the times of Thomas Wolfe, stand in his footprints and view the panoramic screen. Bronze castings locate neighborhood buildings familiar to Wolfe, who died in 1938.
3. TWHOME_211011_020.JPG: Wolfe's Neighborhood
4. TWHOME_211011_026.JPG: Woodfin House
5. TWHOME_211011_031.JPG: G.W. Pack House
6. TWHOME_211011_037.JPG: Beth Israel Synagogue
7. TWHOME_211011_060.JPG: Shuford House
8. TWHOME_211011_066.JPG: Orange Street School
9. TWHOME_211011_071.JPG: Wolfe's Birthplace
10. TWHOME_211011_077.JPG: Biggs Sanitarium
11. TWHOME_211011_080.JPG: Mission Hospital
12. TWHOME_211011_120.JPG: Thomas Wolfe Plaza
13. TWHOME_211011_131.JPG: Trying to remove tree roots in the sidewalk
14. TWHOME_211011_175.JPG: Station #19 - Dixieland A bronze version of Wolfe's shoes draws attention to his mother's boarding house, Old Kentucky Home, immortalized as "Dixieland" in Wolfe's stories of his fictionalized hometown, including Look Homeward, Angel, his autobiographical first novel. Thomas Wolfe lived in the wide-porched boarding house until leaving Asheville in 1924. His mother, Julia, stayed there until her death in 1945. Beautifully preserved, Old Kentucky Home welcomes exploration as a memorial to the novelist. Artists Dan Millspaugh and Angel Cloer created the bronze shoes and hooked rug.
15. TWHOME_211011_194.JPG: Old Kentucky Home
16. TWHOME_211011_196.JPG: Thomas Wolfe House has been designated a Registered National Historical Landmark ... 1972
Wikipedia Description: Thomas Wolfe House
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Thomas Wolfe House, also known as the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, is a state historic site, historic house and museum located at 52 North Market Street in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. The American author Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) lived in the home during his boyhood. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its association with Wolfe. It is located in the Downtown Asheville Historic District.

History

The two-story frame house was built in 1883, influenced by Queen Anne Style architecture. By 1906, when Wolfe's mother, Julia E. (Westall) Wolfe (1860-1945), bought the house, it was a boarding house named "Old Kentucky Home". She soon went to live at her business with Tom, while the other Wolfes remained at their Woodfin Street residence. Wolfe lived at the boarding house until he went to the University of North Carolina in 1916. Julia Wolfe enlarged the house in 1917 by adding five rooms.

Wolfe used the house as the setting for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929). Changing the name of his mother's boarding house to "Dixieland" in his autobiographical fiction, he incorporated his own experiences among family, friends and boarders into the book.

The house became a memorial to Wolfe after his mother's death (he having died relatively young of tuberculosis). It has been open to visitors since the 1950s, owned by the state of North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources since 1976 and designated as a National Historic Landmark. In 1998, 200 of the house's 800 original artifacts and the house's dining room were destroyed by a fire set by an arsonist during the Bele Chere street festival. The perpetrator remains unknown. After a $2.4 million restoration, the house was re-opened in 2003.
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