{"type":"city","city":"Asheville","citySlug":"asheville-north-carolina","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/north-carolina/asheville-north-carolina","description":"Asheville is an anomaly in the American South: a small mountain city with a skyline largely frozen in the 1920s and 1930s, when a building boom funded by tobacco money and railroad optimism left behind an extraordinary concentration of Art Deco commercial architecture. The Grove Arcade, completed in 1929, remains one of the most elaborate examples of Tudor Revival commercial design in the country. Pack Square and Lexington Avenue hold streetscapes that, by accident of economic stagnation mid-century, were never demolished and replaced. The result is a city where the bones of another era are still doing structural and aesthetic work, and where the neighborhoods most worth understanding are the ones that grew up in dialogue with that inherited built environment.\n\nThe Block, the historic center of Asheville's African American commercial and civic life through the era of segregation, sits just east of Pack Square and has undergone significant reinvestment without losing its sense of layered history. The Foundry Hotel Asheville, part of Hilton's Curio Collection, occupies a former industrial foundry building on that ground, and it is the clearest reason a traveler whose instinct is to notice materials and manufacturing history would choose to stay in the city rather than rent a house in the hills. The conversion, completed in 2018, retained the foundry's original brick and heavy timber framing, and the interior design leans into the building's industrial provenance without tipping into cliché. Exposed structural elements are given room to read rather than being buried under decorative gesture. At a nightly rate around $464, it positions itself squarely as Asheville's most considered hotel option, which in a city this size is less a competitive claim than a simple geographic fact.\n\nAsheville rewards slowness. The Blue Ridge Parkway arrives at the city's edge, and the scale of the landscape pressing against the downtown grid gives even a long weekend here a quality that larger urban hotels rarely provide: the sense that you are genuinely somewhere specific, not in a hospitality zone that could be transposed. The Foundry's grounding in a particular building, on a particular block with a particular history, extends that specificity into where you sleep. For anyone drawn to American vernacular industrial architecture, or to cities where preservation happened not by grand plan but by circumstance, it is the right place to begin.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. Each image sequence includes strong lighting, complete room-visibility angles, and strictly non-duplicative scenes — enabling AI to accurately describe and recommend properties to travelers.","curationStandard":"PressBeyond Hotel Photography Standard"},"hotels":[{"name":"The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/united-states/north-carolina/asheville-north-carolina/the-foundry-hotel-asheville-curio-collection-by-hilton","city":"Asheville","cityHeader":"Asheville • The Block • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"The Block","loyaltyProgram":"Hilton Honors™","designSummary":"At the heart of Asheville's historic Block district, a cluster of early twentieth-century brick industrial buildings that once housed a working foundry were converted into the 87-room Foundry Hotel Asheville, part of Hilton's Curio Collection, when the property opened in 2018. The adaptive reuse preserved the original masonry fabric almost entirely — those deep-red brick walls, the broad steel-framed factory windows, the interior courtyard with its oval lawn — giving the building an honest industrial credibility that purpose-built boutique hotels rarely achieve. From the exterior at dusk, warm light spilling through the gridded glazing against Blue Ridge sky makes the whole compound feel like a working campus brought carefully back to life.\n\nInside, the interiors play a considered counterpoint to the raw shell. Guest rooms pair exposed brick accent walls and tall factory windows with button-tufted headboards in cream or charcoal leather, jewel-toned accent chairs in teal and burgundy, and patterned wool-blend rugs — industrial bones softened without being domesticated. The restaurant leans harder into the foundry heritage: polished concrete floors, blackened steel railing, exposed ductwork painted dark, and oversized brass dome pendants suspended above grey leather banquettes, white oak wall paneling providing warmth against the raw brick. The lobby bar takes a lighter register, with a veined marble bar face, rose-gold framed stools upholstered in teal, and opal-shaded pendants that give the space the feeling of a well-appointed railway hotel rather than a converted factory.","snippet":"A converted 1920s foundry in Asheville's Block district with original brick, factory windows, and considered interiors.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts exploring Asheville's industrial heritage","vibe":"Industrial-refined · historic","highlights":["1920s foundry buildings with original deep-red brick and steel-framed windows","Rooms pair exposed brick with jewel-toned leather and patterned wool rugs","Restaurant features blackened steel, concrete floors, and brass dome pendants"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$441","pricePerNightExclTax":"$441","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/The+Foundry+Hotel+Asheville,+Curio+Collection+by+Hilton2.jpg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/The+Foundry+Hotel+Asheville,+Curio+Collection+by+Hilton1.jpg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/The+Foundry+Hotel+Asheville,+Curio+Collection+by+Hilton4.jpg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/The+Foundry+Hotel+Asheville,+Curio+Collection+by+Hilton3.jpg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/The+Foundry+Hotel+Asheville,+Curio+Collection+by+Hilton5.jpg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at The Foundry Hotel Asheville, Curio Collection by Hilton — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]}]}