Fact Friday

Fact Friday 131 - North Carolina Medical College

Fact Friday 131 - North Carolina Medical College

Happy Friday! North Carolina Medical College on Church Street.  The North Carolina Medical College, seen here in a photo from 1916, played an important role in the evolution of medical...

Fact Friday 131 - North Carolina Medical College

Happy Friday! North Carolina Medical College on Church Street.  The North Carolina Medical College, seen here in a photo from 1916, played an important role in the evolution of medical...

Fact Friday 130 - Hotel Charlotte & Carillon Tower

Fact Friday 130 - Hotel Charlotte & Carillon Tower

Happy Cold Friday! Hotel Charlotte, Charlotte's grandest and most famous hotel The Hotel Charlotte opened uptown in 1924 and quickly became one of the city's leading social gathering places. It...

Fact Friday 130 - Hotel Charlotte & Carillon Tower

Happy Cold Friday! Hotel Charlotte, Charlotte's grandest and most famous hotel The Hotel Charlotte opened uptown in 1924 and quickly became one of the city's leading social gathering places. It...

Fact Friday 129 - Historic Park Terrace Closes

Fact Friday 129 - Historic Park Terrace Closes

Happy Friday,    You may have heard via the Charlotte Observer or the Charlotte Business Journal that Park Terrace Theater in historic Park Road Shopping Center screened its last films...

Fact Friday 129 - Historic Park Terrace Closes

Happy Friday,    You may have heard via the Charlotte Observer or the Charlotte Business Journal that Park Terrace Theater in historic Park Road Shopping Center screened its last films...

Fact Friday 128 – The Morehead Inn

Fact Friday 128 – The Morehead Inn

Happy Friday!   C.C. Coddington’s business prospered, paralleling the growth of the city itself. Ironically, it was the streetcar, not the automobile, that first made it possible for society’s well-to-do...

Fact Friday 128 – The Morehead Inn

Happy Friday!   C.C. Coddington’s business prospered, paralleling the growth of the city itself. Ironically, it was the streetcar, not the automobile, that first made it possible for society’s well-to-do...

Fact Friday 127 – The James B. Duke Mansion – Myers Park Series

Fact Friday 127 – The James B. Duke Mansion – M...

Happy Friday!   The original façade of this stately home in the Myers Park neighborhood was built in 1915 by Zebulon Taylor, president of the Southern Public Utilities Company. Having...

Fact Friday 127 – The James B. Duke Mansion – M...

Happy Friday!   The original façade of this stately home in the Myers Park neighborhood was built in 1915 by Zebulon Taylor, president of the Southern Public Utilities Company. Having...

Fact Friday 126 – Queens College – Myers Park Series

Fact Friday 126 – Queens College – Myers Park S...

Happy Friday!   Queens College was originally founded in 1857 as the Charlotte Female Institute, which maintained a building at the corner of College and Ninth streets in uptown Charlotte....

Fact Friday 126 – Queens College – Myers Park S...

Happy Friday!   Queens College was originally founded in 1857 as the Charlotte Female Institute, which maintained a building at the corner of College and Ninth streets in uptown Charlotte....