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. 

Charlotte’s first municipal cemetery houses many of the city and county’s earliest prominent citizens. 

Three generations of the Coffey family inhabited this century-old Steele Creek farmhouse. 

The first and oldest surviving building on the Johnson C. Smith University campus, the impressive Biddle Memorial Hall has been a campus landmark for more than 130 years. 

Built in 1895, the Gothic Revival-styled Carter Hall is the oldest dormitory on the campus of Johnson C. Smith University.