Myers Park Historic District

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.