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Station # 30... "Hotel District" A bronze eagle overlooks an early hotel district. It is similar to an ornamental one that stood as high as the second gallery of the Eagle Hotel, a stagecoach stop on the Buncombe Turnpike and the first grand hostelry in downtown Asheville |
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Irish immigrant James Patton opened the hostelry in 1814. Almost opposite the Eagle, the Swannanoa Hotel began operation in 1878, later theOxford and Savoy Hotels opened nearby making South Main Street (now Biltmore Avenue) a nineteenth century social center. |
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