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Queen of the Hill

Issue: 
May 2010

Grand and posh, the original Battery Park Hotel ushered in Asheville’s tourism boom

Rooms at Battery Park Hotel started at $4 a day.
The lobby of the second Battery Park Hotel, erected in 1924, featured fan windows and mission-style light fixtures.
Many in Asheville were saddened by the leveling of Battery Porter Hill, in addition to the razing of the hotel.
Architect W. L. Stoddard blended Neoclassical and Spanish-styles for Grove’s hotel, which operated until 1972.
A portrait of Colonel Frank Coxe, who built the inn.
Photographs (hotel) courtesy of the Library of Congress; (Coxe/interior) courtesy of special collections/university archives, Ramsey Library, UNC Asheville