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The Thomas Wolfe Memorial located in Asheville, NC

52 North Market Street
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 253-8304

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The Old Kentucky Home in Downtown Asheville
The Old Kentucky Home, located in historic Downtown Asheville, NC

Originally a seven-room family home built in 1883, the Queen Anne Victorian home grew into a 29 room boardinghouse, owned and operated by Thomas Wolfe’s entrepreneurial mother Julia throughout most of its tenure. Serving as young Thomas’ childhood home and then later as the backdrop for his deeply autobiographical first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, the boardinghouse first opened to the public as a Memorial in 1949. The State of North Carolina purchased the historic house and property in 1975, and today it is one of 28 North Carolina State Historic Sites within the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.


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Julia Wolfe posing in front of the Do-Drop-Inn — Asheville, 1942

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The Thomas Wolfe Memorial located in Asheville, NC

Historic Victorian Home in Downtown Asheville, NC

52 North Market Street
Asheville, NC 28801

(828) 253-8304

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