The home of Johnson C. Smith University’s first Black professor, the George E. Davis House stands as a testament to the legacy of one of North Carolina’s foremost advocates for Black education. 

The Excelsior Club was the Southeast’s leading private social club for Black patrons for much of the twentieth century.   

The home of prominent Charlotte dentist and civil rights advocate Dr. Reginald Armistice Hawkins, whose efforts resulted in the desegregation of many Charlotte institutions.   

These two “shotgun” houses are rare surviving examples of the housing style that dominated Charlotte’s Black neighborhoods during much of the twentieth century. 

In addition to the town’s post office, this building housed McCoy’s Barbershop, a longtime Pineville fixture operated by former mayor C. H “Bo” McCoy. 

A rare example of Prairie Style design in Mecklenburg County, the Oakley House was the home of several prominent twentieth-century Pineville families. 

Pineville’s Park Avenue neighborhood is the finest surviving collection of early twentieth-century mill houses in Mecklenburg County. 

Pineville’s Main Street commercial corridor served as the economic backbone and social center for Pineville residents for much of the twentieth century. 

This combination hotel and grocery store was one of several Main Street commercial enterprises operated by Pineville entrepreneur William A. Yandell during the twentieth century. 

The home of local entrepreneur and Pineville co-founder Samuel Younts also served as a community hospital during the mid-twentieth century.