The Bon Marché Building of Asheville, North Carolina

The Bon Marché Building of Asheville, North Carolina, now the Haywood Park Hotel,[1] was built in 1923 by E.W.

This new building served as a larger location for the Bon Marché, originally called Lipinsky and Ellick, which was founded in downtown Asheville in the 1890s.

[5] The owner, Solomon Lipinsky, was a prominent Jewish businessman and community leader in Asheville.

[6] from the 1890s to 1978, nearly 90 years, the Bon Marché became the longest running department store in Asheville's history.

[7] In a 1938 letter to Solomon Lipinsky's son, Lewis Lipinsky, in preparation for the store's 50th anniversary, Asheville author Thomas Wolfe says "…Bon Marché is such a landmark in Asheville life that if I ever heard anything had happened to it I think I should feel almost as if Beaucatcher Mountain had been violently removed from the landscape by some force of nature.