History of Charlotte - Congress for the New Urbanism

History of Charlotte - Congress for the New Urbanism

CHARLOTTE
urbanism old & new
By Dr. Tom Hanchett
staff historian
Levine Museum
of the New South
Charlotte, the “Queen City,” chartered 1768
Settling the Piedmont: The Great Wagon Road
Railroads and the Civil War
bring a “New South” boom, 1870s – 1920s
Railroads and the Civil War
bring a “New South” boom, 1870s – 1920s
“Noda”
Dilworth, streetcar suburb,1891
John Nolen’s Myers park, 1911
Queens College
Myers Park
John Nolen
Nolen’s protégé
Earle Sumner Draper
Queens Road West, Charlotte, NC
Madison, Wisconsin
Mariemont, Ohio
Vermillion, Huntersville, NC
Baxter Town Center, Ft. Mill, SC
Baxter Town Center, Ft. Mill, SC
Birkdale Village, Charlotte, NC
First Ward, Charlotte, NC
Levine Museum of
The New South
7th & College Streets