Editing Thomas Wolfe (section)

==Historic landmarks==
The "Old Kentucky Home" was donated by Wolfe's family as the [[Thomas Wolfe House|Thomas Wolfe Memorial]] and has been open to visitors since the 1950s, owned by the state of North Carolina since 1976 and designated as a [[National Historic Landmark]].<ref name="wolfe fire"/> Wolfe called it "Dixieland" in ''Look Homeward, Angel''.<ref name=Boyle>{{cite news|url=http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2017/03/14/answer-man-historic-thomas-wolfe-cabin-set-rehab/99140854/|title=Answer Man: Historic Thomas Wolfe cabin set for rehab?|last=Boyle|first=John|work=[[Asheville Citizen-Times]]|date=March 14, 2017|access-date=March 16, 2017}}</ref> In 1998, 200 of the house's 800 original artifacts and the house's dining room were destroyed by a fire set by an arsonist during the [[Bele Chere]] street festival. The perpetrator remains unknown.<ref name="wolfe fire"/> After a $2.4 million restoration, the house was re-opened in 2003.<ref name="wolfe fire"/>

A cabin built by Wolfe's friend Max Whitson in 1924 near Azalea Road was designated as a historic landmark by the Asheville City Council in 1982. Thomas Wolfe Cabin, as it is called, was where Wolfe spent the summer of 1937 in his last visit to the city.<ref name=Boyle/> In a letter to [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], Wolfe wrote "I am going into the woods. I am going to try to do the best, the most important piece of work I have ever done", referring to ''October Fair'', which became ''The Web and the Rock'' and ''You Can't Go Home Again''. He also wrote "The Party at Jack's" while at the cabin in the Oteen community.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2017/05/07/visiting-our-past-preserving-wolfes-asheville-legacy/101344190/|title=Visiting Our Past: Preserving Wolfe's Asheville legacy|last=Neufeld|first=Rob|work=Asheville Citizen-Times|date=May 8, 2017|access-date=May 8, 2017}}</ref> The city bought the property, including a larger house, from John Moyer in 2001,<ref name=Boyle/> and did some work fixing up the cabin. Restoring the cabin would cost $300,000 but as of 2021 there is no funding. Plans for the site would cost at least $3.5 million, and as much as $6.7 million.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2021/10/05/answer-man-wake-sculpture-not-moving-thomas-wolfe-cabin-plans/5987991001/|title=Answer Man: WAKE sculpture not moving? Thomas Wolfe cabin plans?|last=Boyle|first=John|work=Asheville Citizen-Times|date=October 5, 2021}}</ref>