The Grove Arcade, also known as the Arcade Building or the Asheville Federal Building, is a historic commercial and residential building in Asheville, North Carolina, in its Downtown Asheville Historic District, downtown historic district. It was built from 1926 to 1929, and is a Tudor Revival architecture, Tudor Revival and Gothic Revival architecture, Late Gothic Revival style building consisting of two stacked blocks. The lower block is a rectangular slab with rounded corners; it is capped by the second block, a two-tier set-back story.
The steel frame and reinforced concrete building was designed to serve as a base for an unbuilt skyscraper. It features a roof deck with a bronze semi-elliptical balcony, molded terra cotta pilasters, and a ziggurat-like arrangement of huge ramps to the roof deck. The building occupies a full city block and housed one of America's first indoor shopping malls. It was sold to the federal government in 1943.
The building housed the National Climatic Data Center until 1995. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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In 1997, the City of Asheville acquired the title to the building under the National Monument Act. The city then signed a 198-year lease with the Grove Arcade Public Market Foundation, a group founded to preserve the building's structural and historical integrity. Over the next five years, the building would be restored and reopened to the public in 2002.][ The north side has winged lions without claws, a symbol of Venice, Italy.]
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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Tudor Revival architecture in North Carolina
Gothic Revival architecture in North Carolina
Commercial buildings completed in 1929
Buildings and structures in Asheville, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Buncombe County, North Carolina
Historic district contributing properties in North Carolina
Shopping arcades in the United States
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