The one standing today is 14 stories tall and was built in 1924 by Edwin W. Grove, during a time of increased tourism in the North Carolina mountains.

Once the railroad reached Asheville in 1880, the mountain town attracted twenty passenger trains a day from the nation's largest cities, and people found out what a wonderful place the community was to visit.

[8] Architect William Lee Stoddart of New York City designed the 220-room Battery Park Hotel that stands today.

The modern building was built of reinforced concrete with brick, limestone, and terra cotta, with a Mission Revival roof that offered a dining area.

[9] On September 4, 1943, a U.S. Government Official, Clifton Alheit, jumped to his death off the roof of the Battery Park Hotel in an apparent suicide.

[10] The hotel closed October 30, 1972 and Billy Shadrick of Housing Projects, Inc. took it over in 1979, keeping the historic exterior with the help of preservation tax credits, and converting the building into apartments for senior citizens.