Hotel District
(of Asheville, N.C.)
An ornamental eagle perched high in front of
the Eagle Hotel one block south. Irish
immigrant James Patton opened the hostelry in
1814. Almost opposite the Eagle, the
Swannanoa Hotel began operation in 1878,
making South Main Street - now Biltmore
Avenue - a nineteenth-century social center.
Marker is at the intersection of Biltmore Avenue (U.S. 25) and Eagle Street, on the right when traveling north on Biltmore Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
