One of Fourth Ward’s only surviving original residences housed Mecklenburg County’s first strawberry farmer. 

The McCausland Building/Thacker’s Restaurant provides a rare glimpse into uptown Charlotte’s late-1800s commercial real estate landscape. 

The Louis Asbury designed Mecklenburg County Courthouse was the subject of a bitter dispute between urban Charlotteans and the county’s rural communities. 

The Queen Anne styled Overcarsh House in Fourth Ward is one of uptown Charlotte’s two oldest homes. 

Charlotte’s largest 19th-century textile mill and anchor for Belmont, the city’s first blue-collar neighborhood.

One of Charlotte’s most unique early twentieth-century apartment houses quickly fell victim to the effects of the Great Depression. 

Charlotte’s first and only hospital until 1888, St. Peter’s Hospital is also believed to be North Carolina’s first non-military hospital. 

The John W. Sheppard House was the home of one of the nation’s first university-trained professional pharmacists. 

The Seaboard Air Line Railroad Passenger Terminal is Charlotte’s only surviving nineteenth-century railroad passenger terminal. 

The Second Ward High School Gymnasium is the only surviving building from that school and one of the last structures of the Brooklyn neighborhood.