Fashionable Asheville: Volumes One and Two

The rise & fall of an affluent Appalachian community. Cultural & architectural social history of prominent families in high society during a fashionable half century of expansion. 1880-1930. Vanderbilts. Groves, Coxes, Raouls, Fitzgeralds, McLeans & many more. A story played out against a background of speculative development in a spectacular mountain setting.