A grab bag of essays exploring the South’s foodways, music traditions, architecture, urban planning and history in general, from a vantage point in Charlotte, North Carolina.

HOME
ABOUT
CHARLOTTE
FOOD FROM HOME
ROSENWALD SCHOOLS
MUSIC
- Shout Bands
- Recorded in Charlotte
ARCHITECTURE/PLANNING

History & architecture in Charlotte’s older neighborhoods

Pre-1930 neighborhoods in Charlotte

hornetsnest Overview: The Growth of Charlotte
Center City / original 4 wards
Belmont-Villa Heights-Optimist Park
Biddleville
Chadwick-Hoskins
Cherry
Crescent Heights
Dilworth from 1911 see also Dilworth before 1911
Eastover
Elizabeth
McCrorey Heights
Myers Park see also Myers Park National Register Nomination (pdf 109 pages)
North Charlotte, see also North Charlotte National Register Nomination, and Useful Information for Cotton Manufacturers by Stuart W. Cramer, 1906

Oaklawn Park
Plaza Midwood
Washington Heights

Architecture and Landscape

Charlotte Architectural History
Charlotte’s Neighborhood Planning Tradition
Planner John Nolen
Planner Earle Sumner Draper
Federal Incentives to Planning
African American Architect WW Smith

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