William Breese Jr. House
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is located in the East Main Street Historic District.
Numerous changes have accompanied the building's conversion to a restaurant and inn.
On the second floor a wall was removed from between the south rooms creating a large meeting roo~. On the ground floor the doorway to the original dining room has been enlarged. One fireplace has been closed off. Most of the building's ceilings have received facing materials such as acoustical tile. However, the institutional kitchen manages to function out of the original kitchen space and overall the original character of the building has not been seriously compromised.
The Colonial Inn remains one of Brevard's finest examples of turn of the century architecture. Through its use of the locally popular pebbledash to execute the familiar Neo-classical Revival design it makes a strong statement about propriety in turn of the century western North Carolina.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Douglas Swaim and John Ager (October 1982). "William Breese Jr. House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on May 8, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2023.
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