{"nrhp_refnum":"11000637","name":"Barringer Hotel","other_names":["Hall House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"426 N. Tryon St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.23011262600005,"lon":-80.83869053099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-08-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twelve-story red-brick Art Deco hotel at the north end of North Tryon Street in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, on a 2.2-acre corner lot at East Eighth Street. The main block was built in 1940, with a rear addition in 1950.","why_significant":"The hotel is argued to be one of only a few surviving Art Deco buildings from the first half of the twentieth century in downtown Charlotte, with a cast-concrete frontispiece and glass block sidelights as character-defining features. It is also presented as an example of the high-rise commercial building type that marked the city's streetcar-era growth, and as the first high-rise built in Charlotte after the Great Depression.","narrative":"Built in 1940 on North Tryon Street in downtown Charlotte, this twelve-story red-brick hotel was designed by Bobbie Dial and Albert Thomas of Columbia, South Carolina, and constructed by the Jno. C. Heslep Company. Its street front uses cast concrete with low-relief zig-zag and stepped detailing, granite veneer at the base, and glass block sidelights around the display windows. A five-bay rear addition followed in 1950, when the interior was redone in the Colonial Revival style and a rear section with 150 more guest rooms was added. The hotel opened in December 1940 with a civic ceremony and was the first high-rise erected in Charlotte after the Depression. It is significant as one of only a few surviving Art Deco buildings of its period downtown, and as a representative example of the commercial high-rise that marked the city's streetcar-era growth. Notable guests included Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, Tyrone Power, and Gloria Swanson.","period_of_significance":"1940-1950","architect_builder":"Bobbie Dial and Albert Thomas (architects); Jno. C. Heslep Company (general contractor)","architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.722638-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/37/7212/47721237/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/11000637.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000637/c9bbd80e40-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000637/c9bbd80e40-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"James Willamor","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barringer_hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">James Willamor</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barringer_hotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721237","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barringer_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19460380"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/barringer-hotel-11000637/"}