Arcade Building (Asheville, North Carolina)

Grove Arcade Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
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Arcade Building, August 2012
Location	Battery Park, Battle Sq., Asheville, North Carolina
Coordinates
Area	4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built	1926 (1926)-1929
Built by	Geary, John M., Co.
Architect	Parker, Charles N.
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival
NRHP Reference #	76001306
Added to NRHP	May 19, 1976

Arcade Building, also known as The Grove Arcade and Asheville Federal Building, is a historic commercial building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1926-1929, and is a Tudor Revival / Late Gothic Revival style building consisting of two stacked blocks. The lower block is a rectangular slab with rounded corners; it is capped by the second block, a two-tier set-back. The steel frame and reinforced concrete building was designed to serve as a base for an unbuilt skyscraper. It features a roof deck with a bronze semi-elliptical balcony, molded terra cotta pilasters, and a ziggurat-like arrangement of huge ramps to the roof deck. The building occupies a full city block and housed one of America's first indoor shopping malls. It was sold to the federal government in 1943. The building housed the National Climatic Data Center until 1995.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is located in the Downtown Asheville Historic District.

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