Known now as the Dunhill Hotel, the Louis Asbury-designed Mayfair Manor offered uptown overnight stays and permanent residency for Charlotteans and visitors alike for decades. 

The first office building in Charlotte built exclusively by and for Black professionals and businessmen. 

Charlotte’s first municipal cemetery houses many of the city and county’s earliest prominent citizens. 

Three generations of the Coffey family inhabited this century-old Steele Creek farmhouse. 

The first and oldest surviving building on the Johnson C. Smith University campus, the impressive Biddle Memorial Hall has been a campus landmark for more than 130 years. 

Built in 1895, the Gothic Revival-styled Carter Hall is the oldest dormitory on the campus of Johnson C. Smith University. 

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.