Dill’s Esso Station on the Asheville Highway, 1965.  The service bays are the home of White Squirrel Car Wash today.  When the first motorized vehicles arrived in Transylvania County in

Over the past two weeks Picturing the Past has looked at two of Transylvania’s automobile dealerships.  Whitmire Motor operated in the 1920s and McCrary Auto from the early 1930s through

Roland Whitmire, W.L. Couch, and Rush Whitmire in the Whitmire Motor show room. In the 1920s Roland and Rush Whitmire operated Whitmire Motor Company in Brevard.  They were the sons

McCrary Tire Service located on Caldwell Street behind the Clayton Hotel, 1933-1939. The McCrary family spend nearly 70 years working in the automobile industry in Brevard.  Carl McCrary and his

Transylvania Times modern facility on North Broad St., 1966. In 1966 The Transylvania Times renovated the former McCrary Auto on N. Broad St. for their new facility.  The large marquee

A three-part Palladian window on the stair landing allows for plenty of light in Silvermont’s large entrance hall. The Silvermont mansion on East Main Street was the home of Joseph

A 1955 Brevard laundromat. For the past several weeks Picturing the Past has been featuring photographs from inside some of Brevard’s businesses.  Drug stores, restaurants, barber and beauty shops, department

In the first decade of the 20th century Brevard had two large hotels, plus numerous small hotels and boarding houses.  John McMinn built the Aethelwold Hotel on the corner of

Frank Clement and Thelma Ashworth inside Clement Jewelry. Brevard has been the home of a number of jewelry shops since the early 1900s.  The earliest mention of a jewelry shop

Rice Furniture opened on June 1, 1968 making it the longest running current retail business in downtown Brevard.  Edwin Rice began in the business as a delivery man for Pearlman’s