The Francis Marion Hoover store was located on the corner of North College and East 5th Streets. Francis Hoover is the man wearing the derby. The family lived upstairs. The building was torn down for the Belk expansion. This photograph was taken around 1900.
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Steam Fire Engine belonging to Charlotte Fire Department
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The Wallis or Wallace house was built around 1756. It was located on Albemarle Road, the house collapsed during an attempt to move the house to another site in the 1960s.
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View of Charlotte from the Daniel Augustus Tompkins Tower. He was a textile magnate and owner of the Charlotte Observer.
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Tryon Street as it appeared at the turn of the century. This scene is looking north down Tryon with Charlotte's City Hall, the tall domed building, on the right.
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Northwest corner of the Square. (Intersection of Trade & Tryon Streets.)
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The Brown and Weddington Hardware Store was located on Trade Street between College and Tryon Streets. It firsts appears in the Charlotte City Directory in 1884.
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The northwest corner of the Square, the intersection of Trade and Tryon Streets, was once known as Old Osborne Corner. It was named for a Mary A. Osborne, widow of Marshall Osborne, who owned a large amount of property in the uptown area.
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The Fourth Mecklenburg County Courthouse stood on the site of Liberty Hall on the southeast corner of Tryon and Third Streets.
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