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17051
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Asheville's River Arts District is a mile long and half-a-mile wide; it can be walked in less than fifteen minutes. The area comprises eighteen buildings which were once the city's industrial riverfront warehouses. Local artists have been converting the old buildings into studios which now provide space for 165 artists and crafters to work.
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6925
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Asheville is known for its downtown art galleries and craft shops. Along the French Broad River is the city's industrial riverfront containing rows of warehouses. Here, over the past decade, artists have been converting the old buildings into studios. The area is known as the River Arts District. Currently there is a thriving community of over forty-five artists and artisans working there, including potters, quilters, and painters.
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1462
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Asheville's 95 year-old Manor Inn was saved from the wrecker's ball in 1989 by the intervention of the Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County. In 1991, Pam and Jim Turner bought the Manor Inn and converted it into apartments.
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18749
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The Ravenscroft School, the oldest standing building in downtown Asheville was built in the mid-1840s. It served as an Episcopal school for boys until the late 1890s. The Ravenscroft School is the recent subject of preservation by the Historic Preservation Fund of North Carolina as one of the finest examples of classical revival architecture in North Carolina.
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