Charlotte’s first public park was the brainchild of industrialist Daniel A. Tompkins.

The J.M. McMichael-designed Jennie Alexander Duplex is believed to be the city’s oldest suburban duplex. 

The Craftsman style Lucas House represents Charlotte’s suburban middle class development in the early 20th century.  

The elaborate bungalow-style John Baxter Alexander House is one of three early 1900s Alexander family homes on a single block in Elizabeth Heights.  

The English Cottage-styled Moore-Golden House is associated the well-known author, journalist, and humorist Harry Golden.  

One of the earliest homes in the Elizabeth neighborhood housed the family of Thad Adams during most of his fifty years of legal practice. 

A unique remnant of Charlotte’s streetcar system, the Trolley Walk illustrates how that transportation technology influenced Charlotte’s early 20th century residential development.  

Past residents of the Walter L. Alexander House include a successful hotelier, the namesake of a major Charlotte thoroughfare, and a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral.

The founder of Belk’s department stores chose prominent Charlotte architect C. C. Hook to design one of the city’s most prominent homes.  

The concrete block Harry Arthur Ziem House was the handiwork of one of Charlotte’s most notable innovators in concrete block construction in the early 1900s.