The founder of the American Tobacco Company and an original investor in what became Duke Energy purchased the Duke Mansion to share his North Carolina upbringing with his only child.

The uniquely styled stone bungalow built for E. B. and Nettle Gresham has been attributed to the prominent Charlotte-born architect Louis B. Asbury.

One of the South’s most prolific professionally trained landscape architects of the early 20th century once called the Earle Sumner Draper House home.

The Louis Asbury designed Thies Automobile Sales and Service Building remains as one of North Tryon Street’s last examples of 1920s commercial-style architecture.

Home of an early 20th-century electric engine repair company whose services supported the growth of Charlotte’s textile industry during the transition from coal-power steam to electricity.

The one-time headquarters of a century-old local bank offers a unique example of Modernist architecture in Charlotte’s financial district.

The oldest surviving commercial building in uptown Charlotte, the Crowell-Berryhill Store is also center city’s only remaining 19th-century grocery store.

A Gothic Revival funeral home designed by Charlotte architect William H. Peeps, whose notable designs included the Latta Arcade and Ratcliffe Florist Shop.

This Queen Anne/Shingle style home of a former Charlotte mayor was visited by U.S. President William Henry Taft in 1909.

A century-old Victorian Romanesque styled commercial building whose historical offerings have ranged from roofing materials and fertilizer to fiber broadband Internet service.