I'm proud to say that this image was chosen for publication in a January 2011 article on "winter photography inspiration" by the Laurel Magazine of Asheville, an arts and culture periodical issued monthly in North Carolina!
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Looking north towards the Black Range of mountains and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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Garden still life. All from my garden !! A 2010 memory. . . . .
Nature morte.
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Cabin with Monarda.
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www.nps.gov/nr/travel/asheville/ote.htm
This fascinating building was constructed at the end of the 1920s during the first major period of Army medical building and administration. TB recovery was a focus here. Asheville, with its pure mountain air, was deemed ideal for treatment of the disease. I have just learned that this structure, and one nearly identical next door, were residences for the (all-female) nursing staff.
MAY BE VIEWED LARGE.
See also adjacent window detail.
The view on the lower right corner shows staff residences, currently occupied. Several other historic buildings nearby have been rehabbed for use. Several are empty, as seen here.
Now a Historic District within our Department of the Interior, these buildings await preservation, new investment, and reuse.
A modern hospital and senior housing, part of the complex, are located adjacent.
(According to Dr. H.W. Hoagland, U.S. Army, he chose the name "Oteen" as being an Indian word meaning "Chief Aim". The chief aim of the patients was "recovering health". Although I cannot link it here, if int'd in Dr. Hoagland's own account from 1919 [before this building was even constructed] search "Hoagland"+"Oteen" on Google. His article appears in Google Docs.)
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