 After visiting Asheville, NC, in 1897 Grove built a summer home there and later moved there permanently.He developed the Grove Park residential area and built the Grove Park Inn with his son-in-law Fred Loring Seely in 1913.He later built the new Battery Park Hotel in downtown Asheville (on the site of the former hotel of the same name) and began construction of the Grove Arcade, a new kind of indoor retail center, which was completed in 1929 after his death.