William E. Breese Sr. House | |
 William E. Breese Sr. House (Swannanoa Hill Mansion), January 2019 | |
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| Location | 674 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°34′23″N82°32′44″W / 35.57306°N 82.54556°W |
| Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
| Built | 1891 |
| Architect | Leonard, Charles B. |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference No. | 80002803 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 28, 1980 |
William E. Breese Sr. House is a historic house located at 674 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
It was built in 1891 by architect Charles B. Leonard, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular timber-framed dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It features an off-center entrance tower with a steeply pitched pyramidal roof. The building housed a sanatorium, called Sherwood Sanatorium, from around 1927 to 1932. After 1939, the building housed a tourist home known as Cedar Crest. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1980. [1]
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