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A few of the fine buildings...
Charlotte photographer W.M. Morse, who lived in Fourth Ward, took this
postcard photography in January 1907 from the courthouse dome across South
Tryon Street. Looking northwest, it shows the dense residential-commercial
mix of uptown Third Ward. In the foreground (left to right) are large
typical frame homes behind the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church,
which opened at 236 South Tryon Street in 1891. To its right is the
triple-massed front of the Piedmont Insurance Building, 220 South Tryon
Street, housing offices and King's Business College in 1909; the tall
ornate facade of the Southern States Trust Co. and, inside it, the Academy
of Music; the 4 C's Building (Charlotte Consolidated Construction Co.,
which originally built and owned the streetcar system and developed
Dilworth neighborhood. To the far right is the turreted YMCA. In the upper
right, find the spire of First Presbyterian Church. Then to is left is the
jutting, square Tompkins Tower designed by architects Oliver D. Wheeler
and Neil Runge, which stood until 1942. Next left in the horizon's center
is the cylindrical water standpipe at Graham and Fifth Streets. Father
left, just above the A.R.P. church spire. locate the low, red-brick, boxy
tower of the early federal post office beside the U.S. Mint. |
