Cute little house! Didn’t get to go inside, but cute to see.

Excellent grounds and exterior tour. The house was closed during our visit. They do have an online walking tour

This is a must stop historical site in Asheville. A lovely Victorian style home nestled into busy downtown with super dedicated and friendly staff that painstakingly ensure authenticity and honest recounts.

A nice way to spend a rainy afternoon! Our guide really loved her job! She was informative , answering our crazy questions, it was as if she was one of the Wolfes long lost children! Never read anything Thomas Wolfe wrote...but NOW I want to..Our guide even gave us a great tip on pizza at the Ashville Brewing company! Thank,you!

Excellent memorial and exhibit featuring the home of Thomas Wolfe - must see!

The history and passion for the house and person deep from every crevice of this landmark. The people are knowledgeable and the house beautifully maintained. I would do the tour again and highly recommend it to all interested.

Great place! Very affordable. Take the guided tour, it was awesome!

Good price for a nice tour of where Thomas Wolfe grew up and the memories that inspired his literary masterpieces. The tour is about 45 minute long. A must visit historical site while in Asheville.

Must of went by this place and didnt notice. Had to have been pleasant though.

Very knowledgeable staff that gave a great tour and conversation about Thomas Wolfe.

Didnt go inside, but the outside is acceptable to walk around.

Although the house is closed due to the pandemic the guide was both nice and knowledgeable

It was very informative. Thomas Wolfe is ranked amongst Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald when it comes to American writers. They have a video you can watch before the tour, there is also an exhibit. For $5 a dossant takes you on the tour of his childhood home, which was a boarding house ran by his mother, and gives you all kinds of information about Thomas Wolfe.

I liked that there was a free, small museum that was very informative and well designed. There was also a paid tour to go through his house.

Great place hard to find these type of diners

October 21, 2017- I and mom was first time visit tour of Thomas Wolfe Memorial house so beautiful, very old stuff, history ago. My iPad took many pictures. Enjoy around tour is great time.

Very quaint and polite peoples. Time after time.

Excellent tour with knowledgeable guide for $5. Childhood home and basis for Look Homeward Angel. About 75% original furnishings.

Very interesting museum and tour. Nice introduction to mid 20th century Appalachian life as well as insights into the roots of Thomas Wolfes writing. A well spent 2 hours.

Very interesting tour and exhibit hall. The staff was very friendly.

Everyone should visit this memorial and discover the fascinating story behind Wolfes book.

Very informative guide. He had a interested life. So glad its been reserved right in the middle of downtown Asheville.

If you have read Thomas Wolfe then you will get a feel of where and what he was writing in Asheville. Look Homeward Angel and You Cant Go Home Again. Some of his written works were published in the New Yorker. Visit the welcome center and then the boarding home. Period furnished.

Always a pretty lawn

Great venue with great artists coming through. I love that I can get a Hop Icecream at a show! Sound quality is amazing.

One of the only museums in WNC, great place to learn about Asheville in the 1920s-30s, as well as Wolfes life, family, and extended contributions to literature. The museum part is a great place to visit in downtown Asheville, it is free or minimal cost. The attached house is a wonderful place to take in and imagine Asheville a century ago. Theyve done a great job restoring it after a hellish arson a couple decades ago. The staff is knowledgeable and provides a good experience.

If your a Thomas Wolfe fan then you will definitely want to visit here. I went more to see the house than learn about Wolfe, but the guides made it interesting and were very knowledgeable.

Good tour. Guide was on point.

What’s ironic is that while he was alive Wolfe was quite reviled in his hometown of Asheville, but now it’s where he’s by far the most beloved as they keep this piece of his legacy alive. The house is very interesting, and Wolfe certainly had an interesting life, but also it’s the house of the guy who inspired lots of other more famous writers like Jack Kerouac. So this house is good for what it is, but your mileage on its subject will vary.

Knowledgeable docent made the visit informative and enjoyable. More than the house you learn about Wolfes life.

The many artifacts and the movie was very good.

Beautiful furniture, great tour narration.

Nice clean bathrooms for public use, not easy to find in the city. Very friendly people at the desk. I learned something for sure!

Enjoyable and affordable. I had a great time even though I never heard of the author myself. I would recommend it to others.

Excellent state historic site. Very nice visitor center.

Very interesting piece of history. Knowledgeable tour guide. A good stop if history interests you.

Historical house right in the heart of downtown Asheville. Guided tours are available. They also have self guided tours for those who want to go at their own pace.

The Wolfe house itself is interesting and well kept with many pieces from the Wolfe family. Much of the original decor and device remains in the house, which is pleasant temperature-wise year round. Our guide was knowledgeable and seemed greatly interested in the Wolfe family and their history.We enjoyed the museum, though I would have liked to learn more about the historical significance of the town and family. The shop was neat with Thomas Wolfe books and books about the area, time, and author.

Neat little museum. Would be better if the staff attempted to interact with its patrons instead of sitting and pretending to be somewhere else.

Very interesting place to see and learn about Thomas Wolfe

It was a great experience to go there.

Our guide was one of the best guides ever. His name I dont remember but he was a young brown haired guy. He spent a lot of time making My grandson very comfortable. He colored pictures with him and he gave him a scavenger hunt book...that kept his attention.

Was really good the guide was friendly and informative. My cousin long ago built the original house so I was glad to see it

I really enjoyed this wonderful museum! David, our guide, was totally knowledgeable about Thomas Wolfe, his works, and the history of the day. He is also very entertaining with a dry sense of humor. The exhibitions and movie, in the visitor center, are very well designed. Id think that even folks who arent Wolfe fans will enjoy the tour.

I read Wolfe in college, earning a BA in English. I saw the movie Genius and became interested once again! This memorial is a wonderful tribute to a great American writer, who was an intriguingly complex man. The staff is very welcoming,and have displays of Wolfe from his time in Asheville, to his writing days when he lived in the famous Chelsea Hotel in New York. The home is well preserved, with many personal relics of the family. While touring with my family, our tour guide led us through each room. The house is still very alive. Julia Wolfe, mother of Thomas, is very much still there ushering in boarders, or showing those wanting to know where he slept, for a small fee. While there, my family agreed that the house felt alive. So, imagine our surprise later that night when we took a walking tour of Haunted Asheville, and the Wolfe Memorial was our first stop! This house is a definite must see, for the love of American Literature,

This place has a lot of amazing history behind it that I really do recommend checking out if youre a history buff like myself. You can see amazings things that you didnt even know about.

Awesome experience.

Really interesting tour. The house is perfectly preserved.

Our guide was great.. The house & movie was very interesting

Unfortunately it was closed, but from the outside it was awesome.. the house, the front porch, the plaque with the info about the author and the role of the house in look homeward, Angel

Very nice visit

A wonderful museum. You get to tour his childhood home, depicted as Dixieland in Look Homeward Angel. Its 85 percent original contents.

I visited this house back in 1979. As a long time fan of his writing it was a great experience. The guide I had was excellent and quite familiar with Wolfes history. I highly recommend a visit.

Interesting historical museum all about Thomas Wolfe.....howllll

Enjoyed visiting this place.

Very nice venue.

Interesting especially if you are book history person

A wonderful museum and a tour of his childhood home (aka Dixieland in his book Look Homeward Angel) .

A must see and experience this bit of history. More than a story about an author, his life journey including his family. His mothers story and business in itself was worth the tour. Please support their cause and save this historical home.

Enjoyed the free Museum

Quite interesting to go and visit. However, if you go to the museum before you will learn everything they tell you on the tour.

Interesting tour, recommend if looking for historical info on Thomas Wolfe, watch Genius the next day, made the Movie much more interesting.

Unfortunately we went over Christmas and it was closed but we walked around the outside and it looked well preserved. Next time we visit Asheville,well be sure to visit.

Excellent guided tour!

A great place to visit and the visitors center is wonderful!

Very comprehensive site to learn about the beginning life of Thomas wolfe.

Always amazing!

Went here on a whim, and glad that we did. My family enjoyed touring this house more than the Biltmore! Aside from *not* being squeezed between velvet ropes with countless other tourists (unlike Biltmore), our guide really brought alive the history of the house. Ive never even read anything by Thomas Woolfe, and I still found it very fascinating. Highly recommend it.

Good historic site with museum, movie and home tour. Lots of original artifacts

Beautiful home

Our guide Sara was excellent very knowledgeable and friendly.

Amazing piece of history.

Looks nice, door locked could not find entrance

Lovely tribute to an Asheville writer. Very friendly.

Small museum. Great tour information.

Great little museum at a literary pillar of America

Awesome

Cant say anything about the memorial since we were actually outside attending the annual Thomas Wolfe Run.

Excellent

Very interesting with knowledgeable guide

Enjoyed the tour, the exhibits and the movie.

Loved it.

Nice pleasant trails

Needs toiletries,

Landmark

Interesting

My favorite museum in Asheville.