Zealandia - mansion on Beaucatcher Mt.

Description

Zealandia a mansion on Beaucatcher Mt. Sir Phillip Henry expanded the home into a three-story, 62-room English manor house (Tudor style) with a separate cottage and stables. John Evans Brown, the original builder named the home "Zealandia" after spending years in New Zealand as a sheep rancher. The original red-brick structure, was built on a 168-acre tract in 1860. Purchased from Brown in 1904 by O.D. Revel, the home was later sold to another Australian, Sir Philip Henry, a wealthy art patron and traveler. The estate was at that time reduced to some 40 acres but the home was expanded in 1919-1920 to a three-story structure and extra rooms were added, bringing the total to 62 and the style more closely aligned to that of an English manor home. Extra cottages and a separate stable were also added. Later remodeling by Henry's daughter Violet Maconochie and her husband combined many of the 62 rooms reducing the number of rooms, but allowing for modern convenience. The estate today contains elements of the original structure, but sections have been removed and the land has been reduced to only 16 acres. It is now the commercial property of Peppertree Resorts, Ltd.
Details
- Format
  - Photographs
- Type
  - StillImage
- Date
  - Date photograph: 1920
  - Date: 2005-04-19
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Asheville (N.C.)
- Source institution
  - University of North Carolina Asheville
- Identifier
  - Ball1011

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