Built from mountain stone and known for its Ben Long frescoes, Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church stands as one of Blowing Rock’s most enduring historic landmarks.
Local artist Reed Tood built a giant metal clothing iron in front of the Flatiron Building nearly 30 years ago. The monument remains a fixture of Asheville to this day.
A historic stone chapel at Crossnore Communities for Children holds one of Western North Carolina’s most meaningful frescoes. Its story reflects a century of care, community and mountain history.
Stolen during the Civil War, North Carolina’s copy of the Bill of Rights vanished for more than a century before its recovery and a statewide tour that included a stop in Asheville.
A former Blowing Rock police chief was beaten to death in 1888 over a minor debt. More than a century later, his grave tells a story of injustice, outrage and a life cut short.
A century-old church on Eagle Street anchors Asheville’s African-American spiritual and cultural heritage.
The Biltmore heiress who reinvented herself abroad and left behind a mystery Asheville still wonders about.
Beneath a quiet stand of trees near Flat Rock’s oldest Episcopal church, a granite cross rises above a hillside of small white markers. It is one of the few memorials dedicated to enslaved and freed African Americans in Western North Carolina.
Joey Withinarts, an artist based in Clemson, South Carolina, has gifted a painting of Nina Simone to her brother, actor and composer Sam Waymon, in the musician’s hometown of Tryon, N.C.
The oldest Episcopal church in Western North Carolina stands as both a mountain refuge and a reminder of the people who built and worshipped here nearly two centuries ago.