Explore Charlotte Neighborhoods
Some Early Charlotte Neighborhoods A-Z
Overview – The Growth of Charlotte
Uptown
Belmont/Villa Heights/Optimist Park
Biddleville/West End /JCSU
- Explore Charlotte’s Beatties Ford Road corridor. A chapter from the book Let There Be Light. more>>
- History: Biddleville
- Walking Tour: West End/JCSU
Chadwick/Hoskins
Cherry
Crescent Heights
Dilworth
East Charlotte
Eastover
Elizabeth
- History: Elizabeth
- Walking Tour: Elizabeth Neighborhood
- 5-Minute Video: Elizabeth
- National Register Nomination: Elizabeth Historic District
McCrorey Heights
Myers Park
- History: Myers Park
- National Register Nomination: Myers Park (pdf 109 pages)
North Charlotte/NoDa
- History: North Charlotte
- Walking Tour: NoDa
- 5-Minute Video: NoDa.
- National Register Nomination: North Charlotte
- Useful Information for Cotton Manufacturers by Stuart W. Cramer, 1906
Oaklawn Park
Plaza Midwood
Washington Heights
Architecture and Landscape
- Charlotte’s Architectural History
- Charlotte’s Neighborhood Planning Tradition
- Planner John Nolen
- Planner Earle Sumner Draper
- Federal Incentives to Planning
- African American Architect WW Smith
- History of Independence Park
Street Names
Who was the “Sharon” in all those Sharon roads? Why isn’t Central central? What do Providence Road in southeast Charlotte, Steele Creek Road to the southwest, and Sugar Creek Road on the eastside have in common? And what’s the deal with Queens Road? more>>