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'''The Bon Marché Building of Asheville, North Carolina''', now the '''Haywood Park Hotel''',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hotels in Asheville, NC {{!}} Haywood Park Hotel, Ascend Hotel Collection |url=https://www.haywoodpark.com/ |access-date=2023-03-15 |website=www.haywoodpark.com |language=en}}</ref> was built in 1923 by [[Edwin Wiley Grove|E.W. Grove]] for the store's owner, Solomon Lipinsky.<ref name="BonMarcheMod"/> This was several years before Grove began construction on nearby [[The Grove Arcade|Grove Arcade]], one of [[Asheville|Asheville's]] most famous architectural landmarks.<ref>{{Cite web
| title = E.W. Grove & Grove Arcade: A Brief History
| publisher = Grove Arcade
| year = 2006
| url = http://www.grovearcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/GA_BriefHistory.pdf
}}</ref> The Bon Marché building was designed by [[William Lee Stoddart|W.L. Stoddart]], a hotel architect who also designed the [[Battery Park Hotel]] and [[Vanderbilt Hotel]].<ref>{{Cite web
|author1=Angie Clifton |author2=Marvin C. Housworth |author3=Adam Ronan | title = Stoddart, William Lee (1868 - 1940)
| work = North Carolina Architects & Builders: A Biographical Dictionary
| publisher = NCSU Library
| year = 2009
| url = http://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000117
| access-date = April 18, 2011}}</ref>
[[File:Ball1521ed.jpg|thumb|The Bon Marché]]
[[File:AA446b copy.jpeg|thumb|Postcard of The Bon Marché]]
[[File:Haywood Park Hotel, Asheville, NC (46690376562).jpg|right|thumb|[[Haywood Park Hotel]] in 2019]]
It now houses the [[Haywood Park Hotel]], a member of [[Historic Hotels of America]].
This new building served as a larger location for the Bon Marché, originally called Lipinsky and Ellick, which was founded in downtown Asheville in the 1890s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/lipinsky/default_lipinsky.html|title = Lipinsky Family Collection}}</ref>  The owner, Solomon Lipinsky, was a prominent Jewish businessman and community leader in Asheville.<ref>{{Citation
|title       = WNC's 50 Most Influential People, Past & Present
|newspaper   = WNC Magazine
|date        = January 2008
|url         = http://www.wncmagazine.com/feature/history_feature/wnc_s_50_most_influential_people_past_present
|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110416055800/http://www.wncmagazine.com/feature/history_feature/wnc_s_50_most_influential_people_past_present
|archive-date = 2011-04-16
|access-date  = April 18, 2011
|url-status     = dead
}}</ref> from the 1890s to 1978, nearly 90 years, the Bon Marché became the longest running department store in Asheville's history.<ref name="BonMarcheMod">{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928210534/http://toto.lib.unca.edu/web_exhibits/family_store/jpg_panels_jewish_businesses/BonMarche_mod.jpg |title=The Family Store: A history Of Jewish Businesses In Downtown Asheville, 1880-1990 |date=September 28, 2011}}</ref>  The name Bon Marché, meaning "the good deal" or "the good market" in French, came from [[Le Bon Marché]], one of the world's first department stores located in [[Paris]].<ref>{{Citation
| title = Souvenir of the Bon Marché, founded by Aristide Boucicaut
| place = Lipinsky Family Papers, Special Collections, D.H. Ramsey Library, UNC Asheville
| year = 1896
| publisher = The Bon Marche by  Imprimerie Lahure
| url = http://toto.lib.unca.edu/booklets/bon_marche/default_bon_marche.htm
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070319182205/http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/booklets/bon_marche/default_bon_marche.htm
| archive-date = March 19, 2007
}}</ref>
In a 1938 letter to Solomon Lipinsky's son, Lewis Lipinsky, in preparation for the store's 50th anniversary, Asheville author [[Thomas Wolfe]] says "…Bon Marché is such a landmark in Asheville life that if I ever heard anything had happened to it I think I should feel almost as if Beaucatcher Mountain had been violently removed from the landscape by some force of nature.  I know that as long as I can remember, at any rate, it has always stood with the women folk at home for the best in merchandise and fashion…" {{citation needed|date=July 2024}}
After The Bon Marché Store moved across the street in 1937, [[Ivey's|Ivey's Department Store]] took over the Bon Marché building.  Ivey's Department Store became a staple in downtown Asheville during the mid-20th century.
In 1985 the Bon Marché building was renovated with the removal of some 1950s and 1960s additions, such as a semicircular awning incompatible with the building's original style. The Haywood Street Redevelopment Corp. converted it into the Haywood Park Hotel and Atrium, a multi-use property which currently houses the Haywood Park Hotel, Isa's Bistro,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fine Dining Restaurants in Asheville, NC {{!}} Isa's French Bistro |url=https://www.isasbistro.com/ |access-date=2023-03-15 |website=www.isasbistro.com |language=en}}</ref> as well as retail and office spaces; the conversion was completed in 1988.<ref>{{cite news|title=Commission Approves Next Phase Of Haywood Park Renewal|newspaper=Asheville Citizen & Times|date=February 27, 1986|page=9|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50386931/commission-approves-next-phase-of/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Haywood Park Hotel Project Completed|newspaper=Asheville Citizen & Times|date=October 22, 1988|page=10A|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/50386636/haywood-park-hotel/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The hotel is a member of [[Historic Hotels of America]].<ref name=hha>{{cite web|url=https://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/haywood-park/ |title=Haywood Park |publisher=[[Historic Hotels of America]] |access-date=May 6, 2020}}</ref>
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