Asheville
Urban Trail

Location #27 - Monument Corner

Monument Corner
 
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Carving tools and a work in progress represent W.O. Wolfe’s tombstone shop, originally open for business on the corner now occupied by Asheville's earliest skyscraper, the Jackson Building (1926). In his shop, W.O. Wolfe engraved an angel, shipped from New York, for a family gravesite in Hendersonville, as referenced in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel.

Monument Corner

Urban Trail Locations

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Victorian frieze

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