Arcade Building, listed on the NRHP in Buncombe County, North Carolina

The Arcade Building is a commercial structure in Asheville completed in 1929 that spans an entire city block with a steel frame and concrete foundation. It features Tudor Revival and Late Gothic Revival architectural elements, molded terra cotta details, rounded corners, and a distinctive shape consisting of a lower rectangular section topped by a smaller set-back upper portion.

E.W. Grove, developer of the Grove Park Inn, commissioned the building as a base for a planned skyscraper; it was built from 1926 to 1929 to designs by Charles N. Parker with the John M. Geary Co. The federal government bought it in 1943, and the National Climatic Data Center occupied it until 1995. Asheville took title in 1997 under the National Monument Act and signed a 198-year lease with the Grove Arcade Public Market Foundation; after restoration it reopened in 2002 and was listed on the National Register in 1976.

The name Grove Arcade honors E.W. Grove, the developer of the Grove Park Inn, who wanted a "classy look to a modern palace of commercialism." The north side carries winged lions without claws, a symbol of Venice, Italy. The building housed one of America's first indoor shopping malls.

The first floor holds shops and restaurants, the second offices, and the third through fifth floors are apartments called The Residences at Grove Arcade. The building occupies a full city block at Battery Park and Battle Square, so enter from the street corner. Look up at the roof deck's bronze semi-elliptical balcony and the ramps that climb to it.

The north side of the building carries winged lions without claws, a symbol of Venice, Italy. E.W. Grove, who also developed the Grove Park Inn, asked for a "classy look to a modern palace of commercialism." The steel frame and reinforced concrete structure was designed as the base for a skyscraper that was never built.