Colonel Franklin Coxe, one of the major investors in the railway of 1886, purchased the highest hill in Asheville to be the site of The Battery Park Hotel. He commissioned Wagner to landscape and construct the regal hotel which would become renowned worldwide. Franklin Coxe
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