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Central business district listed NRHP 1979 with 279 contributing buildings and one contributing object, anchored by Pack Square and bounded by the unusual concentration of 1920s-30s skyscrapers (Jackson, Battery Park, BB&T) that survived because the 1929 stock-market crash hit Asheville especially hard and froze new construction for decades.
Quick facts
- ·Asheville carried the largest per-capita municipal debt in the U.S. through Depression — too poor to demolish, hence Art Deco trove preserved.
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