This Queen Anne/Shingle style home of a former Charlotte mayor was visited by U.S. President William Henry Taft in 1909.

A century-old Victorian Romanesque styled commercial building whose historical offerings have ranged from roofing materials and fertilizer to fiber broadband Internet service.

Charlotte’s first medical school, designed by one of the city’s most prolific church architects.

First Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church was Charlotte's first Associate Reformed church.  

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.