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. 

The Charles Christian Hook-designed Fire Station Number 5 is one of only three pre-World War II fire stations still in operation as firehouses in Charlotte.   

Considered state of the art when completed in 1924, the Art Deco Moderne styled Vest Station water treatment plant still contributes significantly to Charlotte’s overall water system.   

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.