Look Up Asheville$ is now available for pre-ordering through www.lookupasheville.com and at our new office and storefront at 159 Lexington Avenue, in Lexington Station. We're so proud of this book and are excited to hold it in our hands.

Look Up Asheville is a close look at Asheville's architecture as well as a search through Asheville's history. Every page presents stunning photographs and carefully researched and creatively rendered prose. There are many stories within our buildings. All of them lend to an understanding of Asheville's economic and creative spirits, which are mysteriously intertwined. Did you know that Herbert D. Miles, who re-designed the exterior of the Miles Building from a Gentleman's Club (the old kind) stood at the forefront of the movement to centralize banking in America? He was also a poet who published a poem in the New York Times. Do you know the story behind the contrasting County and City Buildings, beyond the fact that City and County have often been at odds on certain issues? Have you ever wondered who designed our buildings and why they are all so different? Finally, have you taken the time to enjoy them just for what they are? Often, the demands of everyday life force us to hurry past the S & W and to look at our Blackberries or IPhones as we move through the town instead of up at the faces carved into the stone of the Drhumor Building or the terra cotta jaguars or dragons or bats atop the Jackson. Look Up Asheville lets Ashevillians reconnect with the city space in a new, old way: with wonder and with awe as well as with a sense of how things have come to be as they are, so beautiful.

Look Up Asheville is available now for ordering. As soon as it arrives from local printer BP Solutions, you'll have one of the first copies of the first edition of this beautiful book.