A spirit of waste and destructiveness is everywhere. The best places in town are being mutilated. One town property has been paved with a desolate horror of white concrete, and they've built stores and garages and office buildings - all raw. And they're putting up a new hotel. It will be 16 stories of steel and concrete and pressed brick, stamped out of the same mold as if by some gigantic biscuit cutter of hotels that has produced a thousand others like it all over the country. Thomas Wolfe
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1924/00/00 | William Lee Stoddart | Architect | Designed by W L Stoddard of New York, the 14-story Battery Park Hotel is built with reinforced concrete, faced with brick, limestone and terra cotta trim with a Mission Revival style roof for Edwin W Grove. | |||
| 1924/00/00 | Edwin Wiley Grove | Owner | Designed by W L Stoddard of New York, the 14-story Battery Park Hotel is built with reinforced concrete, faced with brick, limestone and terra cotta trim with a Mission Revival style roof for Edwin W Grove. | |||
| 1925/04/04 | Babe Ruth | Health | Unconscious, Babe Ruth is taken by taxi to the Battery Park Hotel, where he stays overnight. | The Bellyache Heard Round the World | ||
| 1927/01/27 | Edwin Wiley Grove | Dies | Edwin Wiley Grove dies at his Battery Park Hotel in Asheville, NC. |
| Particulars for Battery Park Hotel: | |
|---|---|
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Area of Significance | Commerce |
| Area of Significance | Community Planning and Development |
| Criteria | Historic Event |
| Historic Use | Hotel |
| Architectural Style | Neoclassical |
| Owner | Private |
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