File:S&W Cafeteria Building, Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC - 53416079972.jpg

English: Built in 1929, this Art Deco-style building was designed by Douglas Ellington to house a location of S&W Cafeteria, a restaurant chain of cafeteria-style eateries based in Charlotte, North Carolina, which were prevalent in cities across the southeast during the mid-20th Century. The building features a terra cotta front facade with a decorative geometric bonnet roof, one-over-one windows on the third floor, decorative polychromatic trim and relief panels, arched window bays on the first and second floors with ornate metal spandrels and decorative polychromatic trim surrounds, a metal canopy with geometric motifs over the main entrance, an octagonal window with a decorative metal screen over the front entrance, a storefront with a translucent glass transom and a recessed doorway flanked by plate glass windows at the east end of the front facade, and a dark stone base. Inside, the building features a large two-story dining hall with balconies overlooking the first floor, terrazzo floors, a metal ceiling with geometric motifs, pendant lights and ceiling fans, tile cladding on the walls, and staircases with metal railings and marble treads. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Additionally, the building is a contributing structure in the Downtown Asheville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and adjusted to its present size in 2011. The former S&W Cafeteria presently houses a food hall with multiple vendors, known as The S&W Market.