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Southern Railway Passenger Depot
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Southern Railway Passenger Depot, August 2012
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Location	1 Biltmore Plaza, Asheville, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°34′3″N 82°32′34″W / 35.56750°N 82.54278°W / 35.56750; -82.54278
Area	less than one acre
Built	1896 (1896)
Architect	Hunt, Richard Morris
MPS	Biltmore Village MRA
NRHP reference No.	79001684
Added to NRHP	November 15, 1979

Southern Railway Passenger Depot is a historic train station located at Biltmore Village, Asheville, North Carolina. It was designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt and built in 1896 for the Southern Railway. It is a one-story symmetrical structure with a low hipped roof, central porte cochere, wide overhanging eaves, half-timbering, and a pebbledash finish.

The station replaced a smaller building that preceded Cornelius Vanderbilt's purchase of land to comprise the Biltmore Estate.

The Southern Railway Depot on Depot St. in Asheville was closed in 1968 due to costs and was demolished in early 1969. After this the Biltmore station served as Asheville's station until passenger train service was discontinued in early August of 1975. The station now houses a restaurant. If passenger service to Asheville is restored, a new station will be built.

The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. H. McKelden Smith (August 1976). "Biltmore Village Survey: Southern Railway Passenger Depot" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
3. "Southern Railway Passenger Depot (Biltmore Depot)". National Park Service. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
4. "Portrait of the past: Southern Railway passenger station".
5. "Asheville Special". American Rails. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
6. "Our Story". Retrieved 2022-02-04.
7. "Historic Biltmore Village to Get New Train Station Behind the Old Depot". asheville.com. Retrieved 2022-02-04.

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