Charlotte Its Historic Neighborhoods

Author : John R. Rogers,Amy T. Rogers
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1531644279

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Charlotte: Its Historic Neighborhoods by John R. Rogers,Amy T. Rogers Pdf

The history of Charlotte is inseparable from the history of its neighborhoods. From the city's founding until the late 1890s, the four wards created by the crossing of Trade and Tryon Streets defined the residential fabric of Charlotte. As the twentieth century approached, the Southern textile boom fueled labor and housing demands that were met by the earliest suburbs that rose out of the farms and pastures surrounding the small town. Dilworth was the first of these suburbs, connected to the town center by the city's maiden electric streetcar line. More new communities quickly followed. Some, such as Myers Park and Elizabeth, have remained strong throughout their history. North Charlotte, Belmont, and others have changed under economic and social challenges. Still others, such as Brooklyn, are gone; they survive only in the memories and photographs of the families that called them home.

Author : John Reynolds Rogers,Amy T. Rogers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0752405152

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Charlotte, Its Historic Neighborhoods by John Reynolds Rogers,Amy T. Rogers Pdf

Author : Amy Rogers,John Rogers
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738543071

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Charlotte's Historic Neighborhoods by Amy Rogers,John Rogers Pdf

Charlotte, a hub of Southern tradition, boasts a rich and fascinating history. Known for its historic neighborhoods, the city as a whole played a vital role in textiles, manufacturing, and transportation.

Author : Douglas Houck
Publisher : HPN Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781935377337

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Historic Charlotte County by Douglas Houck Pdf

Author : Jeff Byers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738517011

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Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood of Charlotte by Jeff Byers Pdf

One of Charlotte's early streetcar suburbs, the Plaza-Midwood neighborhood epitomizes the New South vision of Charlotte. Its history reflects the growing of the New South and the nation as a whole. Plaza-Midwood, known for its architectural and social diversity, has been through the years a proposed enclave for Charlotte's New South elite, an "at risk" inner city area, and ultimately an urban success story. Plaza-Midwood's current prosperity can be attributed to the strength and vision of its "citizens," who continue to preserve the character and history of their community. Plaza-Midwood owes its survival to a dedicated neighborhood organization. Through their efforts, much of the area has been declared an historic district.

Author : Jeff Byers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439629680

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Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood of Charlotte by Jeff Byers Pdf

One of Charlotte's early streetcar suburbs, the Plaza-Midwood neighborhood epitomizes the New South vision of Charlotte. Its history reflects the growing of the New South and the nation as a whole. Plaza-Midwood, known for its architectural and social diversity, has been through the years a proposed enclave for Charlotte's New South elite, an "at risk" inner city area, and ultimately an urban success story. Plaza-Midwood's current prosperity can be attributed to the strength and vision of its "citizens," who continue to preserve the character and history of their community. Plaza-Midwood owes its survival to a dedicated neighborhood organization. Through their efforts, much of the area has been declared an historic district.

Author : Sarah Crosland
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781681060699

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Secret Charlotte: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure by Sarah Crosland Pdf

Where in Charlotte can you… - get up-close with the “Miracle on the Hudson” plane? - indulge in conspiracy theories about occult symbols in public murals? - see a giant head sculpture by a notorious Czech artist? - eat something called burgushi? - hear a parking garage that sings? - watch a giant dragon blow smoke? - visit the grave of cojoined twin sisters who were the inspiration for a Broadway musical? Whether you’re riding at top speeds around the 24-degree bank of a NASCAR track turn, exploring the history of Charlotte’s gold rush and the 17-pound nugget that started it all, or eating ice cream at a Dairy Queen that’s a designated historic site, it’s impossible to be bored in the Queen City with a copy of Secret Charlotte: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. From delightful surprises to hair-raising theories, in these pages you’ll find answers to the questions around town you didn’t even know you had. Filled with fascinating—and often bizarre—stories about the locales that define Charlotte’s culture and history, this is the city’s ultimate scavenger hunt.

Author : Jeff Byers
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1531611664

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Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood of Charlotte by Jeff Byers Pdf

One of Charlotte's early streetcar suburbs, the Plaza-Midwood neighborhood epitomizes the New South vision of Charlotte. Its history reflects the growing of the New South and the nation as a whole. Plaza-Midwood, known for its architectural and social diversity, has been through the years a proposed enclave for Charlotte's New South elite, an "at risk" inner city area, and ultimately an urban success story. Plaza-Midwood's current prosperity can be attributed to the strength and vision of its "citizens," who continue to preserve the character and history of their community. Plaza-Midwood owes its survival to a dedicated neighborhood organization. Through their efforts, much of the area has been declared an historic district.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556040923773

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Lynx Blue Line Extension Northeast Corridor Light Rail Project, Charlotte-Mecklenburg County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Crosland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762788927

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Food Lovers' Guide to® Charlotte by Sarah Crosland Pdf

The ultimate guide to Charlotte's food scene provides the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Written for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including: food festivals and culinary events; specialty food shops; farmers’ markets and farm stands; trendy restaurants and time-tested iconic landmarks; and recipes using local ingredients and traditions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556034587261

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South Corridor Light Rail Project, Charlotte-Mecklenburg County by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Graves,Heather A. Smith
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820343082

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Charlotte, NC by William Graves,Heather A. Smith Pdf

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation's premier banking and financial cores with interests reaching broadly into global markets. Once defined by its biracial and bicultural character, Charlotte is now an emerging immigrant gateway drawing newcomers from Latin America and across the globe. Once derided for its sleepy, nine-to-five “uptown,” Charlotte's center city has been wholly transformed by residential gentrification, corporate headquarters construction, and amenity-based redevelopment. And yet, despite its rapid transformation, Charlotte remains distinctively southern—globalizing, not yet global. This book brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars and local experts to examine Charlotte from multiple angles. Their topics include the banking industry, gentrification, boosterism, architecture, city planning, transit, public schools, NASCAR, and the African American and Latino communities. United in the conviction that the experience of this Sunbelt city—center of the nation's fifth-largest metropolitan area—offers new insight into today's most pressing urban and suburban issues, the contributors to Charlotte, NC: The Global Evolution of a New South City ask what happens when the external forces of globalization combine with a city's internal dynamics to reshape the local structures, landscapes, and identities of a southern place.

Author : David Walters,Linda Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136411526

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Design First by David Walters,Linda Brown Pdf

Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of urban design and physical place-making to planning problems. Design First uses case studies from the authors’ own professional projects to demonstrate how theory can be turned into effective practice, using concepts of traditional urban form to resolve contemporary planning and design issues in American communities. The book is aimed at architects, planners, developers, planning commissioners, elected officials and citizens -- and, importantly, students of architecture and planning -- with the objective of reintegrating three-dimensional design firmly back into planning practice.

Author : Harold Donaldson Eberlein
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438491042

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The Manors and Historic Homes of the Hudson Valley by Harold Donaldson Eberlein Pdf

Harold Donaldson Eberlein's The Manors and Historic Homes of the Hudson Valley has been considered an essential and elegant resource ever since its first publication by J.B. Lippincott in 1924. Profusely illustrated with drawings, classic prints, and photographs (many of the latter taken by the author himself), the book not only discusses the architecture and beauty of more than thirty-five historically relevant estates and homesteads, but also contextualizes their varied histories amid key social and political disruptions, ranging from the rise of the Dutch through to the American Revolution and the heyday of the patroonships overseen by such families as the Livingstons, the Van Rensselaers, and the Van Cortlandts. Eberlein saw the old manors and historic homes of the Hudson Valley as vital signposts to that history of the region— a history "inseparably bound up with the old houses that stand upon both banks of the river, and [a history which] without them ... would lose its dramatic force and become a dull, dead abstraction." This new edition features an introduction by historian Ed Renehan who sets the work in the context of its time, and many new photographs. This book is an indispensable resources for those interested in New York state history and the stories behind some of its best-loved homes.

Author : Patricia Campion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1795581999

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Charlotte Michigan Historical Homes, People, and Businesses by Patricia Campion Pdf

Book 2 of Charlotte Michigan Historical Homes, People and Businesses examines 10 homes explaining the architecture but more importantly, the people who lived there and how they contributed to the growth of Charlotte through their business from as early as 1845. Each featured house includes some or all of the following: the location, an architectural description, ancestry on some of the families, the occupation and business location of residents, some old stories of people or events, and where the home owners are buried.