{"nrhp_refnum":"87000655","name":"Myers Park Historic District","other_names":["See also:Duke, James Buchanan, House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by NC 16, E and W Queens Rd., and Lillington Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.192819849000074,"lon":-80.8319455644365,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-08-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large planned streetcar suburb in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, laid out from 1911 to a plan by John Nolen and later supervised by Earle Draper. It contains 958 structures, mostly single-family houses.","why_significant":"The nomination presents Myers Park as a showcase of early twentieth-century residential architecture, including Bungalow, Colonial Revival, Rectilinear and Tudor Revival designs by leading Carolinas architects. It also highlights the naturalistic landscape planning of Nolen and Draper, with a boulevard backbone, curving streets, parks and mature trees. Most house lots still hold their original buildings.","narrative":"Myers Park is a planned streetcar suburb in Charlotte, North Carolina, begun in 1911 on a nearly treeless cotton farm. Landscape architect John Nolen designed its layout around a 110-foot-wide boulevard, Queens Road, with a trolley line in the median, curving side streets, parks and greenways. Earle Draper took over supervision in 1917, softened the curves and added an entrance at East Boulevard. Today the district holds 958 structures, mostly single-family houses built from the 1910s through the 1950s, with Colonial Revival, Bungalow, Rectilinear and Tudor Revival designs prominent. Leading Carolinas architects such as C.C. Hook and Louis Asbury worked here, and Hook's fifty-two-room mansion for James B. Duke is called Charlotte's finest Colonial Revival example. Deed restrictions kept front yards unfenced, and willow oaks planted in the 1920s now arch over the streets. Although some medians, gateway features and early houses have been altered or lost, the neighborhood largely keeps its planned character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Landscape planners John Nolen and Earle Draper; architects including C.C. Hook, Louis Asbury, J.M. McMichael, William Peeps, Martin Boyer and Charles Barton Keen; developer George Stephens","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Bungalow, Rectilinear, Tudor Revival and Ranch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent to good condition and occupied. Some medians and gateway elements have been altered, and some residences were replaced by condominiums and apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:51.317217-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7212/47721290/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/87000655.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000655/cf7546a679-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000655/cf7546a679-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"James Willamor","credit_html":"James Willamor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Withers_Building_Queens_University_campus.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721290","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers_Park_(Charlotte)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6947425"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/myers-park-historic-district-87000655/"}