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Uptown Charlotte Architectural Walking Tour Descriptions and Map TH ST 24 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.
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