# Intheoaks

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**Intheoaks**, also known as In-the-oaks, is a historic [estate](/source/Estate_(land)) and a national [historic district](/source/Historic_district_(United_States)) located at [Black Mountain](/source/Black_Mountain,_North_Carolina), [Buncombe County, North Carolina](/source/Buncombe_County,_North_Carolina). The district encompasses nine contributing buildings, two contributing sites, seven contributing structures, and four contributing objects associated with a country estate of the 1920s. The main house was built in 1921–1923, and is a four-level, U-shaped [Tudor](/source/Tudor_Revival_architecture) country manor house with an oblique wing. It was designed by New York architect Frank E. Wallis, with a large recreation wing containing a ballroom, [gymnasium](/source/Gym), bowling alley, and indoor swimming pool designed by architect [Richard Sharp Smith](/source/Richard_Sharp_Smith). Also on the property are the contributing Caretaker's Cottage (1923), agricultural and service outbuildings, main entrance gates designed by [Smith and Carrier](/source/Smith_and_Carrier) (1922), and landscape designed by noted landscape architect [Chauncey Beadle](/source/Chauncey_Beadle) The property is known as Camp Henry, a camp for young people and the [Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina](/source/Episcopal_Diocese_of_Western_North_Carolina) offices are located on the estate.[2]

It was listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) in 1991.[1]

## References

1. Jack Reak and Martha Fullington (December 1990). ["Intheoaks"](https://files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/BN0199.pdf) (pdf). *National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory*. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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