Between 1908-1912.
One-story brick commercial building which wraps around the corner of 7th Avenue and Maple Street. Elaborate brick cornice, with rows of drip corbelling and rows of dentil pattern below. Modern glass storefront. Now used as the Salvation Army Family Thrift Store.
417 7th Avenue is typical of the early 20th century commercial development of the depot area of Hendersonville. The area has declined due to the elimination of passenger rail traffic, but neglect has preserved some of the early 20th century character of this section of town. This structure served as a restaurant and grocery store in its earliest years.
Between 1912 and 1922.
Two-story brick commercial structure broken into two storefronts. The building has a corbelled cornice with a dentil pattern. The six second-story windows have been boarded up. The first floor façade has been moderately altered with new storefront windows. Each storefront has its own entrance, plus there is a central door leading upstairs. Both stores were once the "Depot Salvage Co. No. 1." The Star Dray Co. started at this location around 1923. Typical, moderately altered, early 20th century commercial structure. It is located in the middle of the north side 400 block of Seventh Avenue East, the block most characteristic of the early 20th century development of the depot area.
Ca. 1922.
One-story red brick commercial building with corner entrance. Windows replaced with aluminum frame in original openings. Shake pent roofs over door and windows.
Ca. 1905.
Simple, moderately altered, two-story brick commercial structure with a corbelled cornice and a slightly recessed front facade. There are two rows of double hung windows; the bottom row has one-over-one lights and the upper row has been boarded over. Above the non-original display windows there is a metal awning. Between the display windows there is a central entrance.
407 Seventh Avenue is the oldest structure on the northwest side, 400 block of Seventh Avenue East. This commercial block near the depot developed during the early 20th century as a response to the heavy railroad traffic. 407 is probably the oldest surviving brick structure in the depot section. Sanborn Insurance Maps indicate that the structure was built before 1908. That year it served as a grocery store, and in 1912 as a restaurant. It has a large number of windows on the front façade, listed as photo lighting on the insurance maps. The store served as the Depot Bargain House for several decades, but now appears to be unused.
Ca. 1912.
Two-story brick commercial structure. There is modest decorative brickwork at the cornice; the cornice is slightly corbelled, beneath which a pattern is created through bricks set at an angle. Beneath the cornice treatment is a recessed panel. At the second story level, double windows, three-over-one lights, are set below relieving arches. The first floor facade consists of an early 20th century storefront with display windows and a recessed central entrance. There is also a doorway set to the right side of the front façade that leads to the second story. The left elevation has a stepped roofline with numerous brick flues. The original pressed metal ceiling on the first floor interior is still intact. One of the most attractive and most intact of the commercial structures in the depot section of Hendersonville. It is possible that portions of this building could have served as a hotel.
405 7th Avenue - (razed August 7, 2008) 1906, R.P. Freeman paid $500 to H.D. Hyder for one-half interest in the lot and a "two story brick wall." Two years later the building was erected, and, according to Dr. George Jones of the Henderson County Historical Society, the Freeman family ran a grocery store on the 1st floor and raised their family on the second. The Freeman's sold the building to A.J. Overton and Depot Salvage, Inc., who owned the building until 2004. The building was sold one last time in 2007, and, sadly, comes to the end of its time after anchoring the corner of Locust and Seventh for a century. Jim Kastetter Historic 7th Avenue
