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1883 Queen Anne boardinghouse purchased by Julia Westall Wolfe in 1906 and run as 'Old Kentucky Home' while her son Thomas (1900-1938) grew up there; immortalized as 'Dixieland' in his 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel. Asheville banned the book from its library for seven years.
Quick facts
- ·52 N. Market Street. One of 27 NC State Historic Sites. NHL. Damaged in arson fire 1998, restored and reopened 2004. Wolfe died age 37 of tuberculosis of the brain.
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