10 14 9 TH Uptown Charlotte Architectural Walking Tour Descriptions and Map TH ST 24. Wachovia Bank and Trust Building 33. Duke Energy Center • 534 South Tryon ST 15 (Former) • 129 West Trade • A.G. TVS Design, Architects • 2010 Odell, Architect • 1958 • Modern Contemporary Following the address for each site are listed: 8 The form of A.G. Odell’s Wachovia Bank At 48-stories, the Duke Energy Center is Address • Architect/Designer • Year Built • Design TH and Trust was heavily infl uenced by Gordan Charlotte’s second tallest building; but by total Style • National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) or ST Bunshaft’s 1952 Lever House in New York City, square footage is the largest in the city. It has Local Landmark ( LL) designation. which popularized a building type that became attained the highest level of LEED certifi cation, PINE ST common in the U.S. during that period known Platinum, from the U.S. Green Building as “tower-and-slab.” Odell’s building is clad Council. The building’s green features include 1. Trade and Tryon Streets Intersection 7 in concrete, with folded panels on the tower recycling rainwater, energy-saving blinds and a TH Raymond Kaskey, Sculptor • 1995 ST that refl ect an interest in the play of light and vegetative roof that reduces heating and cooling The tour begins and ends needs. The Trade and Tryon intersection is GRAHAM ST 16 shadow and suggest cubist forms. Though the considered the heart of uptown Charlotte and P solid, heavy horizontal base has been opened 33 at the intersection of Trade 13 and reclad, the Wachovia Bank and Trust is one the center of the fi nancial district. In 1995, four 5 6 bronze statues on granite bases were erected TH TH P 12 of the only Odell-designed, high-rise buildings and Tryon Street, and ST 24 at the intersection of the four corners, gifted ST that survives in Charlotte from the 1950s. 34. Harvey B. Gantt Center for African- by the Queens Table, an anonymous group continues north and south 9 American Arts + Culture • 551 South of philanthropists. The statues signify (1) POPLAR ST 11 TH 25. First National Bank/Sun Trust Building Tryon • The Freelon Group, Architects ST Commerce: an early 19th century gold miner 20 CHURCH ST 112 South Tryon • Louis Asbury, Sr., 2009 • Contemporary along Tryon Street. The tour 17 N. TRYON ST 1 and the face of Alan Greenspan, representing 21 Architect • 1926 • Neoclassical/Eclectic This area of Charlotte’s urban core, the historic the city’s banking boom; (2) Industry: a is approximately 2 hours in LL Brooklyn neighborhood, was originally a woman and child millworkers from the early 8 thriving African-American community. It was 22 18 8 TH The 22-story First National Bank is 237 feet tall 20th century textile industry; (3) Transportation: African-American laborers length. Please follow the route W. TRADE ST ST and became the highest building in Charlotte, slowly displaced during the 1960s by expansion building the railroad and an eagle suggesting air connections in the city; and 9 replacing the Johnston building when erected in of the central business district and nearly all (4) Future: a woman holding a child, of which all statues are looking towards. indicated on the map. 19 1926. The design of this Neoclassical skyscraper of the homes and businesses were demolished. holds in high regard the importance of classical The Center takes its design inspiration from 2. Bank of American Corporate Center 7 34 10 structure and ornamentation. A base, middle the Myers School that was located nearby; 100 North Tryon • Caesar Pelli, Architect 6 7 and top can be clearly identifi ed in the building’s a prominent exterior staircase provided the 1992 • Postmodern 5 TH overall design. nickname “Jacob’s Ladder School.” The historic reference became one of the At 60 stories and 871 feet in height, the Bank ST 25 guiding themes for the Gantt Center’s design as a tribute to the neighborhood. of America Corporate Center continues to hold P 23 its place as the tallest skyscraper in uptown 4 COLLEGE ST TH 24 26. NCNB Building • 200 South Tryon 35. St. Peter’s Catholic Church • 507 South Charlotte. Designed by Caesar Pelli, its crown- ST 4 6 Tryon • Architect Unknown • 1888 • shaped spire is one of the most recognizable TH Walter Hook Associates, Architects ST 1961 • Modern Gothic Revival features of the Charlotte skyline. The Corporate 2 Center shares a number of characteristics with MINT ST This 18-story, high-rise building was originally St. Peter’s was Charlotte’s fi rst Catholic church, 1 built to serve Irish and German immigrants. the Hearst Tower, ranging from the focus 3 25 designed by Walter Hook Associates, Inc. and of attention on the building’s crown to the RD was the tallest building in Charlotte from 1961- The fi rst church on this site was erected in 5 1851, but was damaged during the Civil War presence of public art in the lobby. The profi le ST TH ImaginOn 1971 at 300 feet. The building emphasizes its references a common form of the 19th and early ST horizontality through glass variations and a and replaced in the 1880s with the building that 20th century skyscrapers in the way it steps 2 clear expression of a tower on a solid base. The survives today. The adjacent rectory, built in gradually inward. vertical steel members on the exterior bring 1897, has the only remaining Victorian garden P in uptown Charlotte. Like other 19th century 27 26 3 an additional level of depth to the façade. The 3. Ritz-Carlton Hotel • 100 North College LEVINE AVE of the ARTS E. TRADE ST BREVARD ST NCNB building underwent a series of updates churches in the city, it is Gothic Revival in style 35 3 Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart Bank of and renovations beginning in the 1970s; the though the overall design is simplifi ed. & Associates, Architects • 2009 America CHURCH ST 26 most recent renovation was completed by LS3P Contemporary 40 Stadium 28 39 Associates in 2001. 36. The Green • 431 South Tryon • 2002 Built in 2009, the Ritz-Carlton is the fi rst Visitor’s The Green is a three-tiered, public lawn that 27. Johnston Building/Midtown Plaza LEED Gold certifi ed hotel in Charlotte and the Info Center 29 Time is owned and operated by Wells Fargo. The 212 South Tryon • William Lee Stoddart, fi rst within the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. 4 Warner Green was developed in 2002 and beautifully TH Architect • 1924 • Neoclassical • LL The 18-story glass building features, among ST Cable disguises a massive underground parking other sustainable elements, a vegetative 30 Arena The 17-story Johnston Building is clad in deck. It functions as a city park and outdoor rooftop, high-effi ciency plumbing and electrical limestone panels and buff-colored bricks and performance space and features interactive, features, and an electric vehicle charging 31 was designed in the Neoclassical style. The public art based on famous authors and station. MARTIN LUTHER KING BLVD organization of its façade refl ects a later phase literature. P 37 of design for early 20th century skyscrapers; a S. TRYON ST CALDWELL ST design that divided the front into fi ve hortizontal 32 36 parts rather than three parts to help break up 33 the expanse of the middle. Horace Johnston, for 4. Hearst Tower • 214 North Tryon 35 36 Smallwood, Reynolds, Stewart, Stewart Charlotte whom the building is named, was a key player & Associates, Architects • 2002 Transportation in developing the region’s textile industry and DAVIDSON ST Postmodern Center BREVARD ST owned and built numerous mills. 27 37. Ratcliffe Florist Shop/Bernardin’s STONEWALL AVE The 47-story skyscraper, completed in 2002, 34 Restaurant •431 South Tryon • William is the third tallest building in Charlotte and LEGEND: H. Peeps • 1929 • Mediterranean Revival 28. Jefferson Standard/Wells Fargo Main has over 935,000 square feet of space. The P LL • 301 South Tryon • Pease Associates, architecture is primarily Art Deco-inspired, COLLEGE ST 38 Cultural Site Tour Route Louis Ratcliffe opened Ratcliffe Florist Shop and the ornamentation is geometric and linear Architects • 1953 • International in 1917 and in 1929 commissioned William H. and suggests an idea of movement. The Hearst 3 The 10-story building was unique in that it held Charlotte RD Peeps, architect of Latta Arcade, to design a new Tower is considered Postmodern in style Convention ST the title of Charlotte’s fi rst modernist high- two-story building for his store. In 2002, when because its design refl ects a return of ornament, Commercial Site Light Rail Line rise. Originally designed by Pease Associates, the Ratcliffe Condominiums were constructed, with historical references, and exhibits a playful 4 Center its ribbon windows and white planar surfaces the 1929-fl ower shop was rolled across the quality that contrasts with the severity and were indicative of the International style. The street on custom-built railroad tracks. When simplicity of modern architecture. building underwent renovations in the 1970s construction was completed, it was rolled Religious Site Public Parking 37 P and 1980s when two more stories were added. back into place and integrated into the new 5. Montaldo’s Department Store It received its largest renovation in 2004 when condominiums. The original vintage neon sign 220 North Tryon • Louis Asbury, Sr., Little and Associates completed a facelift and was removed in 2011 and relocated to its current location next to The Green. Architect • 1920 • Renaissance Revival 28 re-skinning of the building’s exterior. Montaldo’s Department Store was designed 38. Mecklenburg Investment Company by Louis Asbury, Sr. and was an outlet for 10. First United Presbyterian Church 14. First Associated Reformed 19. Mayfair Manor/The Dunhill Hotel Building •233 South Brevard • William •316-320 South Tryon upscale female clothing in the 1920s. The 406 North College • Architect Unknown Presbyterian Church/McColl Center for 237 North Tryon • Louis Asbury, Sr., 29. Latta Arcade W. Smith, Builder • 1922 • Eclectic original Montaldo’s building was inspired William H. Peeps, Architect • 1914 1877 • Gothic Revival • LL Visual Arts • 721 North Tryon • James Architect • 1929 • Classical Revival • LL NRHP, LL Neoclassical/Eclectic NRHP, LL 5 by the architecture of Italian Renaissance J. McMichael, Architect • 1926 • Gothic palaces. This is clear from the three-story This fi ne building is an extraordinary example The Dunhill Hotel was built in 1929 as the In 1922 construction began on the of church design most popular during the Revival • LL Mayfair Manor Hotel and is the only hotel that Latta Arcade, built in 1914, is an eclectic two- Mecklenburg Investment Company Building, distinguished base and a line of sculptures story, brick commercial building. The pedestrian late Victorian period in Charlotte. During The First Associate Reformed Presbyterian still serves its original function of the nine pre- the fi rst in Charlotte to be planned by African along the balustrade. The addition to the left of the original façade, designed passageway on the ground fl oor serves as a link this time the prospering Queen City saw a Church anchors the northern end of Tryon World War II hotels built in uptown Charlotte. Americans for black-owned businesses and by the architect’s son Louis Asbury, Jr., was completed in 1950 and doubled the between South Tryon and South Church streets. number of congregations from many different Street. Built in 1926, the church was one At the time it was constructed, the 10-story, 100- civic organizations. Located in the Brooklyn street frontage of the store. The main portion of the building is organized by denominations erect new buildings. With few of the most active in uptown with over 500 room Mayfair Manor was intended for temporary 29 neighborhood, the three-story brick building 14 two parallel rows of brick offi ces and retail shops 38 6. The Carolina Theater •224 Noth Tryon exceptions these churches were built in the 10 members. After a period of abandonment and a and permanent guests. Styled after classical was likely designed by contractor William W. covered by a beautifully glassed-in ceiling. R.E. Hall and C.C. Hook, Architects late Gothic Revival style. The First United devastating fi re in 1985, which left nothing but principles of architecture, the hotel façade Smith, the man behind the Grace A.M.E. Zion 1927 • Mediterranean Revival Presbyterian Church is historically signifi cant as an example of this important the stone exterior walls standing, the church was repurposed in 1999 as artist is divided into three parts – a base, a middle Church. The style of the building has no immediate references, but rather architectural style. and a top, with much of the ornamentation 30. 400 South Tryon • 400 South Tryon represents the ornamentation and blending of styles in commercial structures The Carolina Theater is a building whose fate is studios and a public art space. concentrated at the base and top. 19 Pei Little & Associates, Architects from the 1920s. still unknown; a preservation battle in progress. 11. Barringer Hotel/Hall House • 426 15. North Carolina Dance Theatre What was once the entrance lobby and street 1974 • Late Modern North Tryon • Bobby Dial & Albert 701 North Tryon • Smallwood, Reynolds, 20. North Carolina Medical College • 229 Designed in 1974, 400 South Tryon is a late 39. George Cutter Building • 201 South front for the theater was destroyed in 1988. The Thomas, Architects • 1940 • Art Deco 6 Stewart, Stewart & Associates, North Church • James J. McMichael, modern, concrete-faced tower with gold-colored Tryon • A.G. Odell, Architect • 1961 Mediterranean Revival-styled Carolina Theater NRHP was an example of the typical “movie palaces” Architects • 2009 • Contemporary Architect • 1907 • Colonial Revival • LL glass panels and windows that link the entire Modern The Barringer Hotel is one of the only surviving built across the country in the 1920s. Fire damaged part of the building in the Founded in 1970, North Carolina Dance Sited in Charlotte’s Fourth Ward neighborhood, building vertically. It achieves this vertical The George Cutter Building was built in 1961 pre-World War II hotel buildings in uptown early 1980s and the building was later de-listed as a Local Landmark, allowing Theatre is the oldest professional ballet the North Carolina Medical College remains emphasis by not distinguishing between the and, like Odell’s Wachovia Bank and Trust, was Charlotte. Designed in 1940 by architects Bobby for the removal of the lobby. company in the state. The 37,000 square foot today much as it was when fi rst built. Founded levels of the façade. At ground level, the building infl uenced by the “tower-and-slab” form. The Dial and Albert Thomas, it was considered the 15 Patricia McBride & Jeane-Pierre Bonnefoux as a private school in Davidson by Dr. Paul is noted for its expressive concrete canopies. exterior of the Cutter building was completely 7. Charlotte Public Library • 310 North fi nest hotel in the city when it opened; the Center for Dance houses administrative and B. Barringer in 1887, the college moved to Though these canopies appear to spring from replaced in the 1990s by Architect Wagner fi rst to have air-conditioned rooms and ample Tryon • A.G. Odell, Architect • 1956 rehearsal spaces and the North Carolina Dance Theatre School of Dance. The Charlotte in 1907; the building cost $27,000 to thin supports, a foundation footing exists Murray. Originally, the lower two levels were parking for its prosperous automobile-oriented 20 Modern Center for Dance features six dance studios and a 200-seat performance venue. build. 30 beneath street level to hold each structure. open to the street and the building was set back. guests. The style refl ected in the Barringer The Charlotte Public Library has undergone The façade incorporated an interconnection of Hotel is Art Deco, characterized by strong, 16. First United Methodist Church a number of changes over the years. It began 21. Old Settlers’ Cemetery • West 5th horizontal and vertical lines, but the new façade streamlined geometric and linear forms and 501 North Tryon • Architect Unknown 31. Bechtler Museum of Modern Art as the Carnegie Library in 1903 and was (Poplar and Church) • 1770 • LL deemphasizes the verticality. The addition 11 motifs inspired by industry, transportation and 1927 • Gothic Revival 420 South Tryon • Mario Botta, demolished for the postwar modern design by Occupying nearly a full block of the city Architect • 2009 • Contemporary of ornamentation at the top during the 2011 7 machinery. A.G. Odell in 1956. The building was again First United Methodist is an early 20th center, Old Settlers’ Cemetery is the oldest re-cladding of the building demonstrates the 39 century church in the Gothic Revival style. It The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art’s completely transformed by the 1989 renovation burial ground in uptown. Though not offi cially architecture displays a sculptural quality and renewed focus on the ‘capital’ of the building, 12. Oscar J. Thies Automobile Building was established in 1927, when two Methodist and addition by Middleton & McMillan. Gutted to its steel core, the façade was designated as a cemetery until 1815, graves 21 energy that connects to the contemporary which places the current design more fi rmly in the Postmodernist style. 500 North Tryon • Louis Asbury, Sr. congregations joined together. Though the reclad in marble and stucco and a massive new wing was added. here date to the 1770s, soon after Charlotte’s art inside. Though powerful in design, there 1922 • Modern • NRHP, LL church shares some formal characteristics founding. Many of Charlotte’s pioneers are buried on-site, including Thomas 40. Home Federal Savings and Loan/The 8. First Baptist Church/Spirit Square with St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, it differs in is warmth to the building, due to its earthy The Thies Building was built as an automobile Polk and veterans of the Revolutionary War and Civil War. 31 318 North Tryon • James J. McMichael size and materials and is a more monumental coloring and pedestrian scale. A key design Trust Condominium • 139 South Tryon showroom in 1922 for the Roamer Auto Sales element of the four-story structure is the Freeman-White, Architects • 1967 1909 • Byzantine Revival • LL Agency. The large storefront windows were structure. These two churches show the great 22. First Presbyterian Church • 200 West variety that existed within Gothic Revival glass atrium that extends through the museum’s core and diffuses natural Modern • NRHP, LL What is now known as the McGlohon Theatre designed to draw people off the street and Trade • Architect Unknown • 1823 light throughout the building. Notable features of the building include the 12 architecture in the late 19th and early 20th When completed in 1967, the Home Federal at Spirit Square was built in 1909 as the First into the showroom. The building’s practical, Gothic Revival • NRHP cantilevered roof, seemingly supported by a single column, and the terra cotta centuries. 16 Savings and Loan building contrasted in scale Baptist Church. The architecture of the church commercial purpose is implied through its exterior. The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art is part of the larger Levine Serving the Scots-Irish Presbyterian settlers and material with the steel and glass high rises is an eclectic historicism drawing on forms simplicity. Classifi ed as Modern, its design is closely related to its function, Center for the Arts campus built in 2009, the brainchild of Wells Fargo and in town, the First Presbyterian Church was that surrounded it. The building’s designers, from a variety of historical styles, including which is a defi ning characteristic of modern architecture. 17. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church • 115 the Leo Levine Foundation, which includes the Bechtler, the Harvey B. Gantt 8 established on-site in 1821 and the church like others who used concrete extensively classicism, but most signifi cantly from the West 7th (7th and Tryon) • Architect building was constructed in 1823, replacing an Center for African-American Arts + Culture, the John S. and James L. Knight monumental early Christian architecture of during this period, were interested in the 13. Tryon House/Guthery Apartments Unknown • 1892 • Gothic Revival older pre-existing non-denominational church. Theater and the Mint Museum Uptown. Byzantium. The renovation of the church to become the McGlohon Theatre sculptural, textural and structural possibilities 508 North Tryon • Architect Unknown St. Peter’s Episcopal Church has had an impact It was added onto and redone in a Gothic and the sensitive postmodern addition were designed in 1980 by the New York- of the material. The concrete slabs of each of the 1920 • Renaissance Revival on the city and county far beyond its charming Revival style in 1857; the church’s façade 32. Mint Museum Uptown • 500 South fl oor levels cantilever past the vertical supports, based fi rm Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates. dates to this period making it one of the oldest 40 In the 1920s, just as commercial structures but modest appearance. Founded as a mission Tryon • Machado Silvetti, Architect emphasized by the lack of vertical supports in 22 structures in uptown. The spire was built in 9. WFAE Building/Spirit Square Offi ces were replacing residences in uptown Charlotte, in 1834 and a parish in 1844, it was the fi rst 2010 • Contemporary the corners. Converted to condominiums and a 9 Episcopal Church in the city and served as 1884 and the church was enlarged in 1895. 108 East 7th (7th and Tryon) many single-family homes in the area were The Mint Museum Uptown opened in 2010, restaurant in 2009, what was once the two-story bank lobby now functions replaced with apartment houses. Built largely the sponsoring church for nine other parishes. as part of the restaurant, though the original terrazzo fl oors and circular Architect Unknown • 1948 17 23. Ivey’s Department Store •127 North consolidating the Museum of Craft + Design Built of brick and brownstone, St. Peter’s is one staircase have been preserved. International for the single men and women moving to Tryon • William H. Peeps, Architect (previously located in Montaldo’s Department Charlotte for employment, Tryon House is of Charlotte’s best surviving examples of 19th The WFAE Building at Spirit Square is one of the 1924 • Classical Revival Store) and the American and contemporary an example of a multi-residential building. century masonry construction in the Gothic Revival style. few truly International style modern buildings collections held at the Mint Museum’s Randolph Completed in 1920, the building was designed The J.B. Ivey Company opened the Ivey’s in Charlotte. The architects of International 18. Discovery Place • 301 North Tryon 32 Road location. With an exterior clad in pre-cast in the architectural style of Renaissance Department Store in 1924, designating Tryon style not only rejected historically-inspired Clark Tribble Harris & Li, Architects concrete panels, the façade’s dramatic V-shape We hope you’ve found this tour 13 Revival, the façade of the building a reference Street as a retail destination. Ivey’s sold upscale ornamentation, but took their designs a step 1981 • Postmodern merchandise in a luxurious setting and was invites pedestrians up the grand staircase and into the main lobby; once inside to an Italian Renaissance Palazzo. the space opens up onto an impressive three-story atrium. further and rejected adornment altogether; the composition of the materials Discovery Place was one of the fi rst purpose- renovated and enlarged in 1939. The building informative, and learned a little more themselves acted as ornamentation. When constructed in 1948, the building built science museums in the country. Designed was designed in the Classical style by William was used as Sunday school classrooms for the First Baptist Church. Today it is by Clark Tribble Harris & Li, the building is an H. Peeps and was the only building clad in terra about the rich variety of architecture home to the Spirit Square offi ces, the Light Factory gallery and to the WFAE example of postmodernism. It utilizes very little cotta tiles in uptown prior to the construction National Public Radio studio. of the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in 2009. that exists in the Queen City. ornamentation, instead allowing the varied use 18 23 of materials of steel, brick and glass to provide the visual interest for the building.

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A Glossary of Architecural Styles banking largest second States’ United

ART DECO 1920 – 1940 CLASSICAL/GREEK REVIVAL 1800 – 1855 MEDITERRANEAN 1900 – 1930 the to 1920s, the by region mill textile Art Deco is an eclectic design style that began in Paris An architectural movement of the late 18th and early The Mediterranean Revival was an eclectic style that was major America’s for hub a to shipping,

in the 1920s and fl ourished internationally throughout 19th centuries, predominant in Northern Europe and the fi rst introduced in the United States at the end of the 19th

the 1940s. Art Deco’s linear symmetry was a distinct United States. The Greek Revival movement was widely century and became popular during the 1920s and 1930s. cotton from transformed economy its departure from the fl owing asymmetrical organic curves of accepted in the United States as a symbol of new democracy. The style evolved from a renewed interest in the Italian as then, since decade every in population

its predecessor style Art Nouveau. It embraced infl uences Characteristics of the style include gabled or hipped, low- Renaissance architecture of palaces and villas. It was

from many different styles of the early 20th century, pitched roofs, dentils, porches, square or rounded columns most commonly applied to hotels, apartments, commercial gained has city The coast. the to closer including Neoclassical, constructivism, cubism, modernism and temple front entryways. structures, train stations and residences in coastal states areas slave-dependent of collapse and here

and futurism and drew inspiration from ancient Egyptian like Florida and California. and Aztec forms. Although many design movements have COLONIAL REVIVAL 1880 – 1955 railroads of arrival by spurred War, Civil the

political or philosophical beginnings or intentions, Art Deco The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style MODERN 1920 – 1970 was purely decorative. in the United States. Colonial Revival sought to follow Modern architecture is characterized by simplifi cation of after began boom South” “New Charlotte’s the period around the Revolutionary War, with features form and creation of ornament from the structure and theme ART NOUVEAU 1890 – 1910 including two story building heights, a symmetrical front of the building. The fi rst variants were conceived early in the Art Nouveau was an international philosophy and style of façade with an accented doorway and evenly spaced 20th century as a way to reconcile the principles of design art and architecture, most popular between 1890 – 1910. It windows. with technological advancements. Modern architecture

was inspired by natural forms and structures and the desire gained popularity in the United States after World War to create harmony with the natural environment. Though CONTEMPORARY 1970 – PRESENT II and remains a controversial, often-studied style to this growth. to path a on it started

replaced by modernism in the 20th century, Art Nouveau is Contemporary architecture is formally defi ned as the day. It is characterized by non-traditional forms, clean lines

considered an important transition between Neoclassicism building style of the present day and can be varied with a and the use of new technologies in building materials and thus and town, courthouse a Charlotte

and modernism. number of different infl uences. Examples of contemporary construction. made who Tryon, William Governor

architecture often do not have similar or easily recognizable Ward. Fourth in

BAUHAUS 1919 – 1950 features, however some general characteristics include a NEOCLASSICAL 1895 – 1950 Colonial of favor win helped names the –

From the German words ‘bauen’ (to build) and ‘haus’ connection between indoor and outdoor spaces and the use Neoclassical became a dominant style for domestic linger homes Victorian while Ward, First county “Mecklenburg” after her birthplace birthplace her after “Mecklenburg” county

(house), Bauhaus was a revolutionary school of art, of natural light with large and expansive windows. buildings nationwide between the 1900s – 1940s. It was in up sprung has district mixed-use model

architecture and design established by the pioneer modern directly inspired by the Beaux Arts style and the Columbian new the called measure good for and

architect Walter Gropius in Germany in 1919. Its teaching ECLECTIC Exposition in 1893. The style tends to include the features a — streets main the beyond explore to Charlotte in honor of the British queen, queen, British the of honor in Charlotte

method replaced the traditional pupil-teacher relationship Eclecticism is architecture that combines, in a single of classical symmetry, full height porches with columns and sure be time, more have you If towers. new

with the idea of a community of artists working together. work, elements from different historical styles, chiefl y in temple front and various classical ornaments such as dentils village new their named they 1768 In

Its aim was to bring art back into contact with everyday life, architecture, and in the fi ne and decorative arts. and cornices. glistening and facilities cultural notable

and design was therefore given as much weight as fi ne art. 1750s. the in arriving began Church)

POSTMODERN 1970 – PRESENT with wave, third a brought 1980s the since GOTHIC REVIVAL 1750 – 1900 Presbyterian First prominent Uptown’s

BEAUX ARTS 1885 – 1930 A style featuring pointed arches and vaults in windows The Postmodern era is most associated with architecture town banking a as ascendance Charlotte’s

Beaux Arts style (the fi ne arts) was advocated by Americans and doors, steeply pitched gables and balanced thrusts in appearing since the late 1970s continuing through today. (thus Presbyterians Scotch-Irish them

who studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in France. The stone masonry. The style is elaborate and decorative. Gothic Often Postmodern architecture is referred to as neo-classic, structures. Modern” “Mid-century of “Uptown”). European settlers, many of of many settlers, European “Uptown”).

style emphasized classical Greek forms, elaborate detailing, Revival architecture peaked from the 1750s to about 1900. essentially representing a revival of period styles for houses collection impressive an Charlotte leaving

massive plans and heavy masonry. This style was most It became one of the preferred styles for churches in the and an unending variety of forms and sleek, asymmetrical nickname the behind reality (the hilltop

popular for grand public and institutional buildings and the United States. designs for commercial buildings. Postmodernism is 1970s, – 1950s in came lull, Depression long

Trade and Tryon Streets, crossed on a a on crossed Streets, Tryon and Trade

private homes of America’s industrial barons. The primary an allusion to the past with multiple associations and U The next wave of construction, following a a following construction, of wave next The

inspiration for the Beaux Arts style in teh United States INTERNATIONAL 1930 – 1970 meanings. It is a rejection of modernist thought, a return now paths, trading Indian Two

was Chicago’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. This (anti) style epitomized the height of the modern to traditional, historical precedents, with a re-awakened century. 20th early the to back dating

movement in the United States and Europe. By the late interest in history and heritage. centuries. two over back dates it but

BYZANTINE Landmarks National and local designated looks very new, new, very looks 1920s, American architects and clients were increasingly C HARLOTTE PTOWN The architecture of the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire persuaded that European modernism was both visually VICTORIAN 1830 – 1910 dozen two nd fi you’ll Today “historic.”

was developed from Early Christian and Roman antecedents progressive and structurally sound. It is characterized by The fi rst of the Victorian buildings were relatively simple

in the 4th century. Byzantine church architecture is modern principles and materials like concrete, glass, steel, in style, while those built after the Civil War became as them of thought anyone before ones

Levine Museum of the New South New the of Museum Levine concerned almost exclusively with a decorated interior. skeleton-frame construction, rejection of decoration, fl at more elaborate. Beginning in the 1830s, the fl exibility of older replaced buildings new that meant

The mosaics and frescoes have a dual purpose; they give roofs and bands of windows. balloon framing freed buildings from the timber-framed

Rapid and continuous growth has often often has growth continuous and Rapid Dr. Tom Hanchett, Tom Dr. inspiration to the worshipper and are windows to the box forms of the past. Houses were now built with bays, By

spiritual world. Features include multiple domes, round- ITALIANATE 1840 – 1885 turrets, overhangs, odd corners and irregular fl oors plans.

arched windows and highly decorative elements. The Italianate style is distinctive for its pronounced The perfection of the scroll saw allowed for highly complex

— The Development of Uptown Charlotte Uptown of Development The — exaggeration of many Italian Renaissance characteristics; architectural details, made in mass. Pattern books and Introduction towers, emphatic eaves supported by corbels, low-pitched magazines published house plans that provided inspiration roofs or fl at roofs with a wide projection. for new varieties of trim and decoration.

Over Two Centuries of Growth Since 1929 the Dunhill Hotel has played host to literary giants Thank You and international luminaries, 65 building a reputation as the The following timeline details important Historic Charlotte would like to extend our gratitude 1992: to everyone involved in helping us research and leading choice amongst NC events in the history of Charlotte and the Bank of hotels. Generations have enjoyed an adventure through the Uptown Charlotte 60 produce the Uptown Charlotte Architectural 1907: America Dunhill Hotel’s legendary building, beginning their journey in United States and depicts Charlotte’s North Corporate Walking Tour brochure. This effort was a true Architectural Walking Tour building growth over time. Carolina Center, one of our 60 impeccably furnished guestrooms, some with four Medical 60-stories 55 collaboration within the history community. Special poster beds and marble tiled walk in showers with massaging College 2002: Hearst 2010: thanks to Dwain Snyder Photography and Kugler’s jets. Enjoy a cocktail in the Lobby Bar. Tower, Duke Studio for capturing these iconic Uptown images 1956: Energy 47-stories 50 1909: Redesigned Building, and for Dr. Tom Hanchett’s introductory comments. www.DunhillHotel.com First Baptist 1924: Charlotte 48-stories 237 N. Tryon Street Church/ Charlotte Public We would also like to thank the Arts & Science 1903: Uptown Charlotte Spirit Square Speedway Library Original opens 45 Council and the Dunhill Hotel for their generous 704.332.4141 Charlotte fi nancial support that allowed for the production of Public 1922: Library this brochure. As editor and Executive Director it Mecklenburg 1927: 1948: 40 Investment Carolina First was my pleasure to coordinate with these groups. Company Theatre Baptist 1974: STORIES We hope that you will have fun taking our tour! Building 400 South Sunday 35 School Tryon, Diane Althouse Building/ 32-stories Executive Director Spirit Square 30 Historic Charlotte, Inc. 1926: offi ces 1768: Town First National of Charlotte Bank/Sun 1953: 25 About HCI incorporated 1823: First Trust Building, Jefferson 1961: 2010: Presbyterian 22-stories Standard

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