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English: Built in 1926-1929, this Tudor Revival-style building was designed by Charles N. Parker and built by the John M. Geary Company for Edwin Wiley Grove to serve as a shopping arcade and the base of a skyscraper, which was never built, thanks to the death of Grove in 1927 and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. The building served as a shopping arcade and commercial office building until 1943, when it was sold to the United States federal government and vacated by all tenants, as part of the war effort during World War II. After the war, the building became home to the National Climatic Data Center, which remained in the building until 1995. The building features a terra cotta-clad exterior with large bays containing plate glass windows, recessed doorways, and transoms on the first floor and one-over-one windows on the second and third floors, decorative Gothic and Tudor motifs, recessed arched portal doorways at the main entrances to the building with arched transoms, a setback fourth and fifth floor penthouse at the base of the intended location of the tower, which features arched windows on the fifth floor, and two switchback ramps flanking the north entrance to the building, which once allowed visitors to access a rooftop terrace, which are now gated off. The building's interior features two corridors that cross at a bank of elevators in the center of the building, with a large glass skylight running down roof above the central north-south hallway, spiral staircases, decorative balconies, arches at the third floor balconies, decorative columns, terrazzo floors, retail shopfronts with plate glass windows, and stone wainscoting. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and is a contributing structure in the Downtown Asheville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and adjusted to its present size in 2011. Between 1997 and 2002, the building underwent a massive rehabilitation project, which restored the interior corridors and exterior to their original appearances, updated the building's systems, and converted the building back into a shopping arcade, with multiple tenants in the ground-floor retail spaces, offices on the second floor, and apartments on the third, fourth, and fifth floors.