205 Johnson Ln., Crossnore, North Carolina. County/parish: Avery.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 25, 2001. NRIS 01000417.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Weaving Room of Crossnore School, also known as Home Spun House, is a historic school building located at Crossnore, Avery County, North Carolina. It was built in 1936, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, banked, vaguely Rustic Revival-style building constructed of randomly mortared river rock. It was built to house the weaving program of the Crossnore School, an orphanage with an industrial and vocational training program.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The building is now home to the Crossnore Weavers and Crossnore Fine Arts Gallery, a fine art gallery, weaving studio with museum exhibits, and retail shop that benefits that Crossnore School, a private children's home.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718989