​Art and Architecture Walking Tours are currently closed.

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Our popular FREE Art and Architecture Walking Tours of Hendersonville are ready for 2020 with new safety restrictions! 

Join us Saturday, July 18 for Art & Architecture Day in Hendersonville sponsored by the Arts Council of Henderson County.
  • Small groups of six-to-eight will safely social distance their way up Main Street, meeting people in each block from Henderson County’s past who will tell stories of how they helped shape the downtown streetscape.
  • Each group will leave the 100 South block of Main Street in intervals of 15 minutes beginning at 9:00 a.m. There will be six tour guides acting as such notables from Hendersonville’s past such as architects Erle Stillwell and Richard Sharp Smith and long-time mayor Al Edwards. The entire tour will take about 90 minutes.
  • ​All tours are free of charge. Pre-registration is required. Please e-mail  [email protected] or call (828) 693-8504 with your party number to book your time slot on the tour. 

Tours are led by Arts Council board member Doug Gelbert who has created over 400 architectural tours in towns across the United States and Canada. He is co-author of How About Them Apples? Be in the Know in Hendersonville and teaches the architectural course, “What House Style Is That?” at Blue Ridge Community College.



Can’t make the Tour but still want to know everything there is to know about art and architecture in Hendersonville?
Pick up the book Hiding in Plain Sight in Hendersonville at the Center for Art & Inspiration.

As always, dogs are welcome to accompany their well-behaved owners on all our Art and Architectural Walking Tours.

Named “One of the 10 Best Things You Can Do in North Carolina at 9:00 on a Saturday morning”