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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.
Casa Rancho was a motel on US 29 North, five miles north of uptown Charlotte. It was owned by CA Breeze. Physical Description: 3x5 Publisher: E. C. Kropp Company
Construction across Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd. from the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Publisher: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
The YWCA in Charlotte was first organized in 1902 by the Charlotte Woman's Club. Helen Sherman Ogden Liddell (1863-1961) served as the first President. This picture is of the second YWCA building that opened in 1914.
The Trust Building on South Tryon Street housed the Charlotte Opera House (1902-1922) on the first floor. A number of other businesses had offices in the Trust Building, including Southern Power Company
Physical Description: 8x10 and two 4x5 negatives
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The El Rancho Motel was once located at 4815 Wilkinson Boulevard in Charlotte. They offered central heat and air conditioning. televisions in the room and a color television in the lobby.
This information was first published in 1888:
RAILROAD FACILITIES.
AS indicated in a preceding page, Charlotte is a very important railroad centre, perhaps the most important of any city between Washington and Atlanta.
In 1888, the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce produced a booklet of text and engraved illustrations: Sketches of Charlotte. Despite the artistic title, this was a work of promotion.