Designed by prominent Charlotte architect C. C. Hook, the McCoy House was the home of successful furniture vendor William T. McCoy. 

The Tompkins Machine Shop shows how industrialist D. A. Tompkins grew his business by becoming a leader in each phase of the textile manufacturing process.  

One of Charlotte’s first Colonial Revival style residences was home to insurance executive Walter Brem and motion picture pioneer Regger Craver. 

Prominent Charlotte architect William Peeps, noted for his Latta Arcade project, designed and then lived and work in the Peeps House for 30 years.  

The Louis H. Asbury-designed Scott House was once the home of international film star Randolph Scott. 

The Foursquare style Hoyle House was the home of Olive Hoyle and her children following the untimely death of husband and father Reverend Enoch Marvin Hoyle. 

The original Mount Zion Methodist Church is one of the oldest remaining structures in the town of Cornelius. 

The Roosevelt Wilson House stands at the crest of a hill that factored significantly in the founding of the town of Cornelius. 

The Queen Anne style Sherrill-Robbins House was once the home of one of the original co-owners of the Stough-Cornelius Company. 

Mecklenburg County’s Historic Landmarks Department already offers its Adventure Club so that you can visit our county’s historic properties. Now we’re launching a new initiative so that you can learn more about those properties: a brand-new book club specifically associated with the history of Mecklenburg County and North Carolina, as well as historic preservation efforts in general. We call it “Historic Bookmarks” (yes, very “punny”!). And our Historic Bookmarks book club is holding its first-ever book club meeting at Camp North End and we want you to join us! We’ll be discussing Charlotte’s role during WWII with Charlotte’s own Meredith Ritchie, author of Poster Girls, a historical fiction novel set in Charlotte during WWII and based on true but forgotten events.