The Asheville City Building is a colorful, massive and eclectic Art Deco masterpiece. Douglas D. Ellington, an architect who came to Asheville in the mid-1920s, designed the eight-story building, which was completed in 1928. Ellington stated that the design was “an evolution of the desire that the contours of the building should reflect the mountain background,” referring to the amazing scenery that surrounds Asheville and serves as the backdrop of City Hall.
Ellington chose building materials that presented a “transition in color paralleling the natural clay-pink shades of the local Asheville soil.” The unusual octagonal roof is covered with bands of elongated triangular terra cotta red tiles. Between the two levels of the roof are angular pink Georgia marble piers between which are precise vertical rows of ornamental green and gold feather motifs.
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