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“Myers Park opened in 1911 on the
former cotton plantation of
John Springs Myers.
Even
before the land was developed, Charlotteans driving by Myers’ farmhouse
called the
flowers and shrubs in the park-like area
in front of his home, Myers’ Park.
Soon
the open land filled with handsome early twentieth century mansions and the outstanding
landscape and street design by eminent American town planner, John Nolen of Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
The
most important house in the neighborhood was and still is the National Register mansion of
tobacco millionaire James Buchanan Duke, who invested heavily in water power for this
area, bringing electricity to homes and hundreds of cotton mills which made the city
prosper by the 1920s.The
elegant design of streets and homes has held its beauty and value to an extraordinary
degree.”
Mary Norton Kratt
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