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Young Men's Institute Building |
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| Title: | Young Men's Institute Building |
| Alternate Title: | YMI Building |
| Creator - Architect: |
Richard Sharp Smith |
| Creator - Architectural Firm: |
George Vanderbilt's Architectural Firm |
| Building Address: | NW corner of South Market and Eagle Streets |
| Subject - Keyword: |
Asheville, NC; Flat Iron Building and architecture; Asheville NC; Albert C. Wirth and architecture; Asheville, NC; development and commerce and downtown; |
| Subject - LCSH: | Young Men's Institute Building (Asheville, N.C.)
Asheville (NC) -- Architecture and development Asheville (NC) -- African American culture and community and downtown |
| Description: | A 2 1/2 story building under a tin hipped roof with pebble dash-surfaced walls and red brick trim. Designed in a simplified English cottage style. |
| Publisher: | D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| Contributor: | Historic Architectural Resources of Downtown Asheville North Carolina |
| Date Building Constructed / Ended: | 1892 |
| Date Building Destroyed: | Remaining |
| Building Type: | Civic, Institutional Housing, Library, Meeting Hall, Professional, Specialty Store |
| Architectural Style: | English Cottage Style: |
| Building Current Function: | YMI Cultural Center |
| Building Historic Function: | Center of social activities for Asheville's black community, containing offices as well as a black public library. |
| Tenants: | African American men and boys; African American public library; 1906-center for social activity in the African America community; Drugstore Professional offices. YMI Cultural Center |
| Format: | text; image |
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| Language: | English |
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| Coverage - Temporal: |
after 1892 |
| Coverage - Spatial: |
Asheville, North Carolina |
| DC Record Type: | text; image |
| Rights: | Any display, publication or public use must credit
D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina
at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
| Processed By: | NRHP & Downtown Asheville Historic District
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