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The
Original Blueprint Front Elevation
A
Page from an Architectural Journal
W.
Vance Brown
The
Original Montford Subdivision, 1894
The
W. Vance Brown Family
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The
W. Vance Brown House was designed in 1900 by Richard Sharp Smith,
just five years after final construction of the Biltmore House.
He
was born in Harding, Yorkshire, England in 1852 and came to the
United States in 1882. Smith
received his education and Architectural training in London,
England, and came to America soon thereafter; entered offices of
Hunt and Hunt, Architects, New York City from 1886 to 1895.
Mr. Richard M. Hunt, Sr., who designed the Biltmore House, sent
Mr. Smith to Asheville as resident and supervising architect for
the erection of the Biltmore House, and it was through the close
association and friendship of Mr. George W. Vanderbilt that Mr.
Smith was persuaded to remain and begin his practice in
Asheville. He designed the Paragon Building, Haywood Street,
in which he began his practice, and shortly afterwards designed
for Mr. Vanderbilt the many houses, office buildings, stores,
school and entrance gate to the Estate of Biltmore House, in the
Village of Biltmore.
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