[Dariusb]

Originally Posted by hauntedheadnc

The Asheville subway system detailed here along with all manner of other grand plans for the city back during its Jazz Age boom years.

Then there was the Art Deco courthouse that was proposed along with the city hall. The county scrapped plans for it after seeing the City Building, as it was far too daring. We ended up with a big neoclassical box instead:



Then there was this tower planned to go atop the Grove Arcade, a 1920's shopping mall that takes up an entire block downtown.



And in addition to those there were probably a dozen or so 10-15 story commercial buildings, most of them Art Deco, in the pipeline when the stock market crashed in 1929. Asheville would have been a radically different city had those all been built.

Interesting.