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Regeneration Station, After the Storm - Asheville, North Carolina
katie linsky shaw
Dec 6, 2024
Summary
A warehouse full of antique vendors near the Swannanoa River in Asheville, North Carolina that was destroyed when floodwaters reached record levels after Hurricane Helene in September.
A week after the storm, Michelle Hensley drove to the area to survey damage inside the Regeneration Station - a large, bright green warehouse that housed vendors selling antiques and refurbished furniture. Hensley had several mid-century furniture booths inside. The warehouse was destroyed when floodwaters rushed in and left everything caked in thick mud. Hensley, whose booth was on the front end, searched that side of the building to see if anything was salvageable. She found a few lamps, some glasses that somehow survived the storm, and a print. A beautiful divan she said she’d just reupholstered before the storm - that she’d frantically moved from the Antique Tobacco Barn, that sits closer to the river, to the Regeneration Station the night before the storm, assuming it would be safer there - was also destroyed.
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