The First Methodist Church formed in 1927 with the merger of Tryon Street Methodist and Trinity Methodist. This particular building was completed in 1927 at a cost between $8000,000 and $900,000. It houses a four-manual organ, tower chimes, a 1560 seat auditorium and a educational building.
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Every year, the best high school football players from North and South Carolina meet to play at the Shrine Bowl.
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Charlotte City Hall, located on East Trade Street, was first occupied in 1927.
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Camp Greene was a military training camp constructed in northwest Charlotte during World War I. Caption on postcards reads, Physical Description: 3 x 5 postcard Publisher: A. M. Simon, 32 Union Square, New York
Founded in 1912, today the school is known as Queens University.
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The Charlotte Municpal Airport opened in 1936 under the auspices of the city of Charlotte. During World War II, the United States Army Airforce took over the management of the airport and established Morris Field Air Base in 1941. The airfield was used by the Third Airforce for antisubmarine patrols and training. After the war, a passenger terminal was added, and the airport was renamed the Douglas Municipal Airport in honor of Mayor Ben E. Douglas (1894-1981).
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Located att 112 South Tryon Street, the above building was originally known as the First National Bank in 1927, the name changed in 1940 when Liberty Life Insurance Company of Greenville, South Carolina purchased the property. Physical Description: 3 x 5 postcard Publisher: Dixie News
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