Prominent real estate developer Charles Ervin housed his namesake firm, once a leading U.S. home builder, in this first skyscraper east of downtown Charlotte. 

Charlotte’s oldest extant building was the home of a framer of North Carolina’s first Constitution and Bill of Rights. 

The Greek Revival style John Hunter House was the home of generations of the Hunter family for nearly a century. 

Siloam was one of five Black schools in the Mallard Creek district, and its students attended the school each year for a six-month term during the 1920s.

After some four decades as an educational facility for the Croft community, the Croft Schoolhouse once again welcomes local students. 

The unique Stripped Classicism architectural style of the Derita High School Gymnasium distinguishes it from the county’s few remaining pre-World War II gyms. 

Once part of a 6,000-acre plantation, the Edgewood Farmhouse became the farm of Robert and Abigail Alexander, members of two of the Hopewell community’s most prominent families.  

The Nevin School has served a valued educational resource for Charlotte for more than a century. 

Descendants of the original owners of the century-old S. W. & C. S. Davis General Store still offer a wide variety of merchandise for their customers. 

Silas W. Davis, the original owner of the S. W. Davis House, played a prominent role in the life and development of the Croft community.