The last of Charlotte’s uptown movie palaces and vaudeville venues, the lavish Carolina Theater entertained for more than 50 years.

The first cotton mill within Charlotte’s city limits set in motion the city’s rise to the leading center for textile manufacturing in the United States. 

For more than a century, Charlotte’s second municipal cemetery evidenced how segregation was more than a matter of daily life in the Queen City. 

With its unique Romanesque, Gothic, and Byzantine Revival styling, the 1909 First Baptist Church building became the cherished Spirit Square performing arts center in the 1970s. 

Once the tallest building in the Carolinas, the Louis Asbury-designed First National Bank building housed the South’s first post-Civil War national bank. 

The Franks House survives as a rare example of working-class Black homeownership in twentieth century Charlotte. 

Once Charlotte’s tallest building, the Johnston Building housed the various business interests of Charles Worth Johnston, one of the city’s most prominent textile industrialists.  

A rare early 20th-century downtown commercial building, Latta Arcade is also the city’s only extant building once occupied by prominent Charlotte developer Edward Dilworth Latta. 

Known now as the Dunhill Hotel, the Louis Asbury-designed Mayfair Manor offered uptown overnight stays and permanent residency for Charlotteans and visitors alike for decades. 

The first office building in Charlotte built exclusively by and for Black professionals and businessmen.