Asheville
Urban Trail

Location #8 - Flat Iron Architecture

Flat Iron Architecture
 
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Turn the corner and you'll discover a fabulously large iron, a replica of one used by a local laundry (artist: Reed Todd). In 1923 E. W. Grove built a major department store, now the Haywood Park Hotel, opposite this corner.  The Flat Iron Building (1926) followed soon afterward, designed by Albert Wirth and reminiscent of the ground-breaking 1902 skyscraper that graces Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. 

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