There's more to the basement...

 ... in a hallway which is the back door entrance to the Black Mountain Center for the Arts. Newer signs give some of the history of the building. I enter the building from the parking lot or the clay studio, which is around the corner from this main building. Up one flight of stairs is the office and theatre.

But these photos continue the story of the history of this building, which I began in my blog post here.

On the second story, BMCA has a nice gallery space for showing a variety of exhibits through the year. But it used to be the Black Mountain Library!

The other room on the second story is now used primarily for dance classes, with one mirrored wall.

I'm going to slip something else in here, since that's such a great photo of the fire station when in use.

Here's the Swannanoa Museum in the same space today. 

This fire station now museum is situated to the left of the Center for the Arts (as you look at them from State St.)

And the front entrance of Black Mountain Center for the Arts is on State St. Here's how it looked when it was the City Hall, which is still the carved in marble title above the door.

A 1954 view of both buildings

PS, The Clay Studio also has a history...more on that later!!

Sharing with Sepia Saturday this week. Buildings are the places where people work, live, eat, enjoy entertainment, create, etc etc...

Today's quote:

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? -Thomas J. Watson, Chairman and CEO of IBM (1874-1956)
And we mustn't forget the celebration of the day (thanks to Frog and Penguinn) March 2 is,..Dr. Seuss's Birthday, National Read Across America Day, Old Stuff Day, World Teen Mental Wellness Day