| Charlotte Observer: January
1957 through June 1959
January 3, 1957 - - "Water Plant Building Cost Up to $39,887"
(p.5A)
About Hoskins Water Filtration Plant, done by Rea
Construction
January 3,1957 - - "Firm Starts New Building" (p. 9A)
Froeling and Robertson, Inc. to start 3,680 sq. ft. building
at 2806 Hutchinson
Ave.
January 5, 1957 - - "2 Companies Plan New Building Here" (p.
3A)
Williamson and Co., parent company of United Motors
Exchange, which opens soon on corner of South Blvd and
W. Morehead, may relocate to Charlotte
And bid sought for Piedmont and Northern RR Co., 5,000 sq.
ft. freight terminal
on Second St.
January 8, 1957 - - "3 Contracts Let By Schoolboard" (p. 1B)
Plan to build Cotswald, Pinewood, and East Mecklenburg
January 9, 1957 - - "New Wayside Shop to Show Furniture" (p.
14A)
Grading begun on furniture store on Concord Hwy, two miles
beyond city limits –
5,800 sq. ft. "flat top, semi-block, brickfront"store blding
January 16, 1957 - - "Slum Report Set January 24" (p.3A)
Report by Charlotte planning commission on slum
clearance and urban development – want to amend Urban
Redevelopment Law
January 19, 1957 - - "Credit Co. Office Under Construction"
(p.3A)
New office blding on 715 S. Tryon for Credit Co., Inc.
January 20, 1957 - - "New Building to Be Started" (p. 10B)
Allison Erwin Co. to start building on N. Tryon Street
January 20,1957 - - Ervin Construction Co Ad (p.9D)
Developer, advertising open house: four types – "popularity
house",
"Linwood", "Oakwood", "Hazelwood"
January 22, 1957 - - "A and P Will Build $1,250,000 Warehouse
in Charlotte" (p.14A)
January 23, 1957 - - "Real Estate Firm Will Locate Here" (p.
8A)
Frank G. Binswanger, Inc., industrial and commercial real
estate firm,
Choose Charlotte as first southern office
January 23, 1957 - - " Charlotteans Heads U.S. Home Builders"
(1B)
George S. Goodyear Jr., elected as 1957 president, National
Association of
Home Builders
January 24, 1957 - - "School Plans Underway" (1C)
4 City Schools being built: Jr. High for Myers Park
elementary school for Myers Park
High school around Eastway Dr.
Negro elementary near W. Charlotte
January 25, 1957 - - "School Bids Hit $139,629" (p. 3A)
For W. Charlotte High addition
January 26, 1957 - - "$4 Million Home Development Planned"
(p. 1B)
In Yorkmont Park on York Rd south of city by Alson Goode
Corp.
January 26 1957 - - "Brady Planning Modern Building" (p.4B)
Brady Distribution Co. planning modern warehouse at 2000
block of
W. Morehead - Frank Wooten and Assoc., engineer and architect
January 27, 1957 - - "Pushing County for Space: How Big Will
Charlotte Get?" (p.1D)
January 29, 1957 - - Southern Construction Co. Advertisement
(p. 15C)
Picture of new building for the Teamsters Local 71 at 5100 N.
Tryon St.
January 31, 1957 - - "Home Development Planned In Sharon" (p.
14A)
John Crosland development between Sharon and Park Rd.
January 31, 1957 - - "Celanese Opens Vast Laboratories in
Charlotte" (p.18A)
Reid Road – Celanese Corporation of America (textile fibers)
February 9, 157 - - "Mud Halts Building Jobs" (p. 1B)
WSOC-TV plant and Baringer School
February 10, 1957 - - " Clean Lines Mark New Local Church"
(p. 14B)
New Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2438 Crescent Ave.
"modern building materials with strong emphasis on steel,
aluminum,
and glass, have been fashioned into straight, simple lines."
February 12, 1957 - - " "Esso Building Bids Requested" (p.
11A)
Esso Standard Oil, Co. to build 3-story, 85,000sq. ft.
building across from
Woodlawn Park Road Shopping Center
February 12, 1957 - - "Queen City Reflects Touch of Texas,
Dash of France" (p.12C)
Overview of Charlotte’s modern architecture – library,
coliseum, Wachovia
Blding
February 12, 1957 - - "Charlotte. . . As A Shopping Center. .
.As A Place To Live" (C)
Special section, includes articles on architects, suburbs,
growth, traffic, etc.
February 13, 1957 - - "Opening Scheduled By Shopping Center"
(p.5A)
Opening of Myers Park Shopping Center
February 21, 1957 - - "Schools Shed ‘Rigid Look’" (p.24A)
Dr. Elmer Garinger talks about how "modern architecture and
modern
Education are becoming inseparable partners"
February 21, 1957 - - "A Pattern Adds to City’s Skyline"
(p.1B)
Caption above picture of Wachovia Bank & Trust site on W.
Trade
February 24, 1957 - - "Gingerbread Disappearing – Atomic Age
Architecture –
Imaginative Revolt" (p. 2D)
Report on Charlotte’s transformation – razing of
revival style building and erecting new, modern
buildings w/ new materials - includes pictures
February 26, 1957 - - Ad for grand opening of Union National
Bank at 1200
Hutchinson Ave – includes picture of building (p.4A)
March 1, 1957 - - "Highway Land Law Is Asked" (p. 6A)
State tries to pass law that would allow State Highway
Commission to condemn
land for superhighways
March 2, 1957 - - "4th Street Plan Backed By
Chamber" (p.1B)
Plan to expand city-county government facility onto
block across from courthouse-want to create center for
government there
March 4, 1957 - - "City Will Get New Industry Employing 100"
(p1B)
$500,000 building is planned for Railway Supply and
Manufacturing Co. –
modern plant for cotton waste processing on P&N Railway
development
outside of city
March 6, 1957 - - Advertisement for first Holiday Inn in
Charlotte (p. 4A)
"ultra modern highway hotel on Wilkinson Blvd. Near US 29 and
74 West
March 8, 1957 - -"In An Urban Crisis: A 10-Year Plan For All
Cities" (p.2B)
Looking for investment in urban centers, city modernization
–very concerned
About preserving "open spaces"
March 10, 1957 - - "$5 Million Bypass May Be Completed By
This Summer" (p.8C)
Two pictures of US 29 Bypass – L.A. Brown, engineer
March 12, 1957 - - "No Intersections: Superhighway to Skip
Lights" (p. 6A)
Impact of Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 on NC
March 12, 1957 - - "Officials Seek $1 Million For Local
Colleges" (p. 1B)
Plans for Charlotte College and Carver College – future
growth, want to
Turn community colleges over to independent board –
both colleges considering sites outside city limits for
expansions
March 16, 1957 - - Picture of WSOC-TV tower going up (p.4B)
March 16, 1957 - - "Airport Hotel Plans Nearing Final Stages"
(p. 1B)
Proposing "airtel" at Charlotte Douglas Airport,
being negotiated by John Crosland and Allen Band (of
Hotel Charlotte) – aka Charlotte Airport Hotel
Company
March 17, 1957 - - "Mecklenburg’s Courthouse Jam Brings On
Cry For More Space"
(p.1B)
picture of proposed site for expansion across courthouse
March 20, 1957 - - "Bill Eases Way To Clear Slums" (p. 4A)
Changes in state’s urban redevelopment laws proposed – would
broaden
Authority of municipalities in slum clearance – blighted
properties could be
Purchased by eminent domain if 2/3 blighted
March 20, 1957 - - "Carolina Steel Erectors Create Enduring
Beauty In Steel" (p.5B)
Examples of work – Public Library, entrance to WBTV building,
Wilson Jr. High
(includes picture of Wilson Jr. High – Odell)
March 21, 1957 –"New School Ready" (p.10A)
Nations Ford Road Elementary School – Paul L. Snyder,
architect
G..L. Wilson, builder
March 24, 1957 – "$40 Million Kilowatt Factory Rising Beside
Catawba River" (p.12A)
Duke Power’s Allen Plant – includes pictures
March 29, 1957 – "City’s Annexation Bill Is Introduced"
(p.1A)
Introduced to houses of General Assembly
March 31, 1957 – Picture of Wilson Jr, High School (p.3D)
One of 14 buildings of nation to win Award of Merit
for outstanding American architecture by American
Institute of Architects
Architect – Odell Contractor – Southern Construction
Co.
April 7, 1957 – "Piedmont Seen AS Giant City: Metropolis May
Put New York In
Shade" (p.1B)
See "new type" of city emerging, see piedmont as turning into
one huge city,
because of rapid growth outward and because of the automobile
and vast network
of roads - map/illustration
April 7, 1957 – "Architect’s Body Honors Charlottean" (p.2B)
Odell gets honorary fellows for design
April 12, 1957 – "P&N Starts New Freight Terminal" (p. 20C)
North side of 2nd Street between Mint and Graham –
brick and concrete, designed
By J.N. Pease and Co.
April 14, 1957 – "Schools Head List of New Building" (p 4D)
April 14, 1957 – "Business Profile: Ace Home Builder Started
In Shed" (p4D)
Charles C. Ervin – owns his own building company,
construction company,
Building supply company, engineering company, sanitary
plumbing and heating,
Realty, Investment Company – control over all aspects of
building process
April 18, 1957 – "Drug Firm Plans New Office" (p.9A)
Burnwell and Dunn Co.
April 21, 1957 – "Celanese Likes Suburbia" (p.23A)
Office building 6 miles from downtown and one mile from bus
line creates no
Special problems because of automobile
April 21, 1957 – "How WSOC-TV Won Race" (p.9A)
Race to operate channel 9, second TV channel in Charlotte –
building tower
April 22, 1957 – Advertisement for opening of
Williams-Shelton Co.’s new building
Wholesale distributors of toys, modern blding
at 4500 Pineville
Rd. - picture(p13B)
Articles on company on p.3C and 4C
April 24, 1957 – "A TV Tower, Not A Rocket"
WSOC-TV tower completed, begin broadcasting Sunday, April 28
– picture.
May 7, 1957 – "City To Get New UHF Station" (p.4A)
Century Advertising Inc. issued permit to operate WQMC-TV,
plan 8,000
Sq. ft. studio/office and tower next to coliseum
May 16, 1957 – "New Mile Long Dam Slated Over Catawba" (p.1B)
Duke Power asks government okay for Cowan’s Ford Dam –
picture
May 19, 1957 – Section B
"Bigger Family Pocketbooks Restricting Public Housing"
"Lots of Tenants – But ‘Problem’ Kind"
"Normal Families Leaving, Problem Families Moving In"
section advocating slum clearance, giving reasons to clear
slums,
redevelop Brooklyn area
May 21, 1957 – "Is Redevelopment The Key to A Future Civic
Center?" (p.2B)
Want to tear down part of Brooklyn, turn into municipal
facilities
May 22, 1957 – "City Limits Measure to Become Law Today"
May 26, 1957 – "Here’s What Will Happen When Charlotte
Extends Boundaries" (p1B)
Map of proposed expansion, articles on services to new areas
June 2, 1957 – "Building Planned By Geigy Division" (p5B)
Offices, warehouses of chemical company planned between
Highway 16 and Old
Mt. Holly Road
June 2, 1957 – "Meet Architect A.G. Odell, Jr.: He’s Changing
Our Skyline!" (p.1C)
Whole page of articles on his building and him –
aerial shot of downtown with all of Odell’s buildings
marked
" ‘What I’d really like to design,’ he says, ‘is a
university’"
June 5, 1957 – "NC May Give Local Colleges $600,000 Fund"
(p.1C)
June 7, 1957 – "Contract Awarded For Dorsey Building" (p.15C)
"Modern" $126,000 building on East 4th Street near
Independence Blvd.
Architect – D. M. Mackintosh and Co.
Contractor – Myers and Chapman
Includes sketch
June 8, 1957 – "You Can Get On The 29 Bypass At Nine
Locations (p.1B)
Scheduled completion December – sketch included
Engineer – M.E. Beatty
June 8, 1957 – (p.4B)
Picture of new Biddleville branch of library at 2324 Lasalle
Street
June 13, 1957 – "Harris Building Work Begins" (p. 4C)
Offices, warehouses of Harris Super Markets Inc. on
Hawkins Street off South Tryon
C.D. Spangler Construction – engineer
June 15, 1957 – " ‘Y’, AG Deal Reported Near: Property
Exchange On Way" (p.1B)
Plan to build new YMCA at old Alexander Graham Junior High
School, next
Summer at earliest
June 20, 1957 – "Airport Hotel Work Slated For Today" (p.5A)
Work begins on John Crosland ‘s administration
building for the Charlotte Airport Hotel
June 22, 1957 – "New Office To Be Built" (p.6A)
Westinghouse-Electric Corp. – office and shop on Highway
Place near
Potter’s Road
Architect – J.N. Pease and Co.
June 22, 1957 – "Federal Funds Are Approved For Memorial"
(p.1B)
$520,000 granted towards expansion – 2 new buildings
– student nurses residence and outpatient clinic
June 25, 1957 – "Proposed Library Building Described" (p.1B)
Fronting Morehead Street
Architect – Arthur H. Barbel, Jr., chief engineer of Walter
Hook & Assoc.
June 28, 1957 – "Here’s How Charlottetown Shopping Center
Will Look" (p.1B)
Sketch included, phase one of project – all-weather mall,
skywalk over
Independence Blvd planned – first of it’s kind in the South
July 3, 1957 – "Western Electric Company Started" (p. 9A)
2800 block of N. Tryon Street, includes sketch
July 3, 1957 – picture of Harris Super Market proposed office
(p.20A)
Spangler’s sketch
July 13, 1957 – "Extension Opposition Flares Up" (p. 1B)
Large map of proposed limits extension areas
July 15, 1957 – "Construction Begun On Armour Building"
(p.12B)
"modern" structure at Thrift Rod and Stewart Creek
J.A. Jones Construction, contractor
Thomas C. Rickenbacker, architect
July 16, 1957 – "Voters Approve City Extension By 3-1 Special
Election Margin:
Area Doubled By Expansion" (p.1A)
July 16, 1957 – "Work Progresses On Water Facility" (p.2A)
Hoskins water treatment plant
J.N. Pease & Co., engineer/architect
Pictures of construction
July 26, 1957 – "Work Begun On Building" (p.12A)
Harris Super Market’s warehouse/office begun
July 27, 1957 – "County Bond Issue Will Be Requested – Group
Seeks Action For
Office Building" (p. 1B)
Want entire block on 4th Street across from
Courthouse
July 28, 1957 – "Wachovia Bank Building Near Completion" (p.
12D)
Tallest building in Charlotte – 15 stories, $5 million, work
begun 1956
Scheduled completion January 1958
Great pictures showing progress of construction
August 3, 1957 – "As The Architect Sees It" (p.8A)
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church on Queens Road; modern
church design by Harold Wagner of Philadelphia
August 4, 1957 – "They Came From All Over To Live Here: What
New Neighbors Think
of Charlotte" (p. 1D)
August 8, 1957 – "This Is A Chapel? – Architects Praise Air
Force Chapel" (p. 2A)
Local architects respond to Congress’s negative
reaction to "ultra-modern" air force chapel
–construction delayed because of design. Lots of remarks
from A. G. Odell
August 8, 1957 – (p.1C) picture of Hwy 29 bypass paving
beginning
August 17, 1957 – "Work Begun On Airport Hotel" (p.4B)
Architect – Walter Hook; complete site plan made, sketch
included
August 18, 1957 – "In Construction Field: Pease – For
Charlotte, Another Landmark"
(p1D)
Profile of J. N. Pease and Company, engineers and
architects – background, pictures, list of projects and
completed buildings
August 22, 1957 – "Gas Stations Sprout All Over Town" (p.1C)
Picture of corner of W. Morehead, entitled
"Charlotte’s Gas Tank Runneth Over", article about too
many gas stations in Charlotte
August 23, 1957 – "Shop Center Construction Starts Soon"
(p.6A)
Colonial Village Shopping Center – corner of Scaleybark and
Pineville
John Crosland, Co.
August 24, 1957 – "US 29 Takes Another Step Forward Tuesday"
(p.1B)
New leg of bypass to cross Catawba River into Gaston Co.
City Council opens bids to contractor – map included
August 25, 1957 –"New Lake Planned By 1965" (p.1A)
29,000 acre lake – Lake Norman
map on p. 3A, "Duke Plans A King Size Lake"
August 28, 1957 – "Four New Mecklenburg Schools Will Greet
Students Sept. 4"
(p.6A)
Idlewild, Briarwood, Tuckaseegee Road and Nation’s Ford Road
August 28, 1957 – "Highway 29 Bids Total $1,908,010" (p.1C)
Blythe Bros. of Charlotte – structural work
August 29, 1957 – "City Wants Signs Off Sidewalk" (p.1A)
Ordinance would ban big signs on Tryon and Trade – picture of
Tryon Street
August 30, 1957 – "Charlotte College Eyes A Growing Future"
(p3A)
Charlotte College selects 20 acre site
September 3, 1957 – "Mecklenburg Needs Parks: County
Recreation Board Is Eyed -
Perimeter Area Suffering From Lack Of Parks" (p.2A)
September 4, 1957 – "$2.5 Million Hotel Planned: Plans
Revealed For Big Hotel" (p.1B)
Southern Cross Hotel – Independence Blvd at
Intersection of Route 27, beyond Coliseum. "most
advanced concept of hotel operation anywhere"; scheduled
completion summer 1958
Architects – N. J. Alfred and A. Rothman of Lapierne,
Litchfield and Partners
Designer – Ken White Associates
September 6, 1957 – "Lutheran Church Nears Final Move" (p.5C)
Resurrection Lutheran Church – breaking ground for
"contemporary" structure on Shenandoah Ave. – sketch
included
September 11, 1957 – "In Myers Park, Apartment Building Is
Being Considered" (p.8A)
Queens Rd.
September 13, 1957 – Picture – "Progress Applies the Squeeze"
Image of traditional building between modern Cato
Building and Wachovia Building
September 14, 1957 – "Not Like Old Days: Night Empties
Streets" (p. 1B)
Downtown restaurants and businesses losing ground against
shopping centers –
no parking facilities – "people prefer drive-ins"
September 17, 1957 – "Special Meeting This Week: Council To
Act On Building" (p.1B)
Additional county office space; Two sites suggested –
one across from courthouse, the other beside it
Sketch of proposed courthouse annex on Myers St.
September 21, 1957 – "Charlotte Frontiers Rapidly Push
Outward: Need For Good
Community Facilities Public Problem" (p.2C)
Map included of new developments around Charlotte
September 21, 1957 – "Big Freeways Will Aid Suburbs" (p.12C)
September 25, 1957 – "Supermarket Opens Doors" (p.15A)
"ultra-modern design, plenty of parking space"
September 27, 1957 – "New Suburban Area Is Open" (p.15A)
Lake Forest, off of Albemarle Road
Hanks, Terman and Wyman Realty
September 28, 1957 – "Park ‘N’ Shop Plans Large New Home"
(p.1B)
On Wilkinson Blvd.
September 30, 1957 – "Bottlenecks Disappear: Road Projects TO
Speed Traffic" (p.1B)
Three major highway jobs due – Park Rd, NC 16 to
Rozelle’s Ferry, and US 29 Bypass – pictures included
October 1, 1957 – "Allison-Erwin Co. In Mammoth New Home"
(p.2C)
2920 N. Tryon – "unique design – three pictures
J.N. Pease and Co., Architects
Section C, "Allison-Erwin Section" – history of firm
p. 17C – picture of construction "New Building One of Most
Modern In Entire
South"
October 11, 1957 – "New Junior High Dedicated" (p. 12B)
Herbert Spaugh Jr. High
James A. Makon, architect
McDevitt & Street, Co. , contractor
October 11, 1957 – "4 Lane Highway To Coast Sought:
Charlotte, Port City Push Plan" (p.1B)
Highway from Charlotte to Wilmington
October 7, 1957 – "Roads To Cost $124 Million – NC Plans
4-Lane Highway Network"
(p.1A)
October 8, 1957 – "Architects To Draw Up School Plans" (p.
1B)
October 17, 1957 – "Two-Story IBM Building to Be Erected on
East Morehead Street" ( (p.5C)
October 19, 1957 – "NC-Ohio Link OK’d" (p.1A)
Illustration, 431 mile highway sought
November 5, 1957 – "Highway Survey Is Urged" (p. 1A)
Group asks for widening of Highway 74
November 14, 1957 – "Highway 29 Link To Open Today" (p.4A)
November 15, 1957 – "North Tryon Site Considered – City May
Get New Rail Terminal" (p.1B)
November 19, 1957 – "County Office Site Opposed" (p.1C)
Shows architect’s drawing of proposed county office
buildings and courthouse as seen from 4th
Street
November 23, 1957 – "City Officials Say It’s Time For Slum
Clearance" (p.1B)
November 27, 1957 – "Chamber of Commerce Committee Backs
Across 4Th Street
Location" (p.7A)
November 28, 1957 – "Council Names Slum Group – Effort To
Include Negro Defeated"
(p. 1C)
November 29, 1957 – "Library Still Draws Praise – One of Most
Beautiful" (p.11A)
Main branch library designed by Odell
November 30, 1957 – Hardware Building Planned" (p.11A)
412 Louise Ave.
McDowell and Cooler, architects
December 3, 1957 – "70-Acre Housing Project Planned – Site on
Old Sardis Road"
(p.10A)
between Billingsly Rd and Leroy St.- for non-white
residential
Mason Wallace Corp.
December 3, 1957 – "City Council Planners Boost Civic Center:
Brooklyn Clearance
Envisioned" (p.1C)
December 4, 1957 – "Chain Store To Construct $150,000
Building Soon" (p.10A)
Eagles Stores, Co., Inc. headquarters to be built on
corner of E. 7th St. and McCombs – 1 story,
12,000 sq. ft.
December 5, 1957 – "Civic Center Planning OK’d – County, City
Give Go Ahead"
(p.1C)
site planned in Brooklyn, part of redevelopment
Walter Hook, architect, heading Redevelopment Committee
December 8, 1957 – "That Road to Ohio Will Be Colossal"
(p.2A)
December 8, 1957 – "Rural Development Plan Is Unveiled: 13
Piedmont Counties
Affected" (p.1D)
Including Mecklenburg - Want to make gains in 4 areas:
industrial development;
Agricultural development; community development; tourist
development
December 11, 1957 – "Hot Zoning Issue To Come Before Council,
Planners: Providence,
Sharon, Amity Corner Rezoning Hearing Slated
Today" (p.8A)
Want to rezone whole corner from R-2 to B-1 – two of
the four corners are already zoned business
December 12, 1957 – "Charlotte Builders Looking For Land"
(p.1C)
To build "idea" house according to surveys
R. Emery Holroyd Jr. heads architect committee
December 15, 1957 – "Development Idea Hailed: 14 Counties
Back Project" (p.1D)
Rural re-development plan gains popularity
December 18, 1957 – picture of Park Road Shopping Center
(p.8B)
December 18, 1957 – " ‘Y’ Land Swap Worked Out: Couple to
Release Site For
Building" (p. 1C)
New YMCA slated on Morehead Road, swapped land with Alexander
Graham
School
December 18, 1957 – "Huge Development Plan: Area Buildup Is
Launched" (p.1C)
Sponsored by Charlotte Chamber of Commerce w/ Duke Power,
Southern Bell,
Charlotte Observer – rural development for Piedmont counties
December 19, 1957 – "Land to Be Bought For School" (p.6A)
Land Bought for Garinger High School
December 20, 1957 –"New NC Highway Open For Business" (p.8A)
NC Highway 16
December 24, 1957 – "Commission Acts ON Urban Renewal: Unit
Acts To Form
Program" (p. 1B)
City seeking federal funds for Brooklyn slums "cleanup"
December 24, 1957 – "Odell to Design Campus" (p.6B)
Consolidated Presbyterian Church in Laurinburg
December 27, 1957 – "In The Local Community, A Year Of Great
Decisions" (p.2C)
Overview of government actions – slums, schools, hospitals,
leadership
December 30, 1957 – "These Stories Made ’57 Headlines"
(p.10A)
Nice wrap-up of big local/national stories
December 31, 1957 – "Ohio-Charlotte Road May Continue South:
Columbia Would Be
Terminus" (p. 1B)
January 1, 1958 – "County Day School To Erect New Plant:
$600,000 Project
Planned"(p.1C)
Harnes’ donate 30-acre plot – A.G. Odell, Jr., architect
January 1, 1958 – "Ervin Buys 425 Acres For New Subdivision"
(P.12C)
On Pineville Road
January 4, 1958 – "Outlying School Center – Officials Want
‘Urban Office’: ‘Brooklyn
Area’ Won’t Meet Need" (p.1B)
Want city and county school system offices to be in
one location, share responsibilities
January 5, 1958 – Drug Firm Occupying New Building" (p.12A)
1300 Hawthorne Lane
Burnwell & Dunn, Co.
January 7, 1958 – "WSOC Starts New Building: Studios, Office
On N. Tryon" (p.12A)
J.N. Pease, architect
Estimated $1.5 million – sketch included
January 9, 1958 – "City School Board Hunts New Home, Council
Watches" (p.5A)
On Independence, or in Brooklyn Redevelopment area?
January 14, 1958 – "Move Speeded To Buy Park Site At Library"
(p.1B)
On corner of Tryon and 6th Street –
property adjoining main library branch- move to buy it
and turn it into a park
January 15, 1958 – "Next Slum Step Up To Planners – Must
Designate Area" (p.1B)
January 18, 1958 – "Lutherans Plan Ceremony: Groundbreaking
Will Mark Site of New
Church" (p. 9A)
Lutheran Church of the Reformation plans
‘contemporary’ building at intersection of Wedgewood Dr.
and Tyvola
Sketch included
January 18, 1958 – "Missile Plant Building Plans Now
Complete" (p.1B)
New facilities at Charlotte Ordinance Missile Plant
$750,000 - $1 million
January 21, 1958 – "County Buys Corner Lots At Courthouse"
(p.1B)
Corner of 4th Street and Myers - want to raze
buildings and build parking lots
January 22, 1958 – "Here Most Modern Grocery Warehouse In
South: Foodway Marks
10 Years of Growth" (p.3C)
Associated Grocers Mutual of Carolinas, Inc. (aka
Foodway) opens new building at 4000 Raleigh Street
January 28, 1958 – "Tourist Facilities Rising in Demands of
New Age" (p.11C)
Rise of motels/hotels in Charlotte – includes picture
January 29, 1958 – "Wachovia Formal Opening Is Feb. 17"
(p.5A)
Includes picture
January 30, 1958 – "Councilmen Ban Downtown Signs
–Overhanging Kind" (p.1C)
February 4, 1958 – "Redevelopment Bead Drawn On Brooklyn:
Planners Take Tour of
Area – McIntyre Says Board ‘Horrified’"
(p.1B)
February 7, 1958 – "Contracts For Two Schools Awarded" (p.1B)
Alexander Graham Junior High and Runnymeade Elementary
J.N. Pease & Co. under direction of senior VP James A.
Stenhouse, architect
Sketch included
February 14, 1958 – "Here’s Why Wachovia Building
Constructed" (p.6A)
To set pace of growth in Charlotte
February 15, 1958 – "Wachovia Dedication Sunday: Edifice
Proved Faith In City"
(p.1C+)
whole section, especially 2C, dedicated to Wachovia
"New Building Has Unique Textured Face"
February 16, 1958 – "Big Freedom Drive Warehouse Planned"
(p.7B)
By P&N Realty for Frigidaire
J.N. Pease, architect
McDevitt & Street, contractors
$430,000 office, storage, warehouse
February 19, 1958 – "Queens College Bids ‘Too High’" (p.11A)
J.N. Pease, architect for three buildings for sororities –
each with different design
February 23, 1958 – "Contract Awarded For New School" (p.8A)
21-room Montclaire Elementary
Biberstein, Bowles, Meacham and Reed, Inc., architects
R.H. Wheatley Construction, gen. Contractors
Sketch included
February 23, 1958 – Ad for Butler Steel "Low Profile Building
Design System" (p.2D)
Gives "modern sweeping look" - "Low. . . Wide . . . and
Handsome"
February 25, 1958 – Dreams of Community College May Be On
Road To Reality"
(p.4A)
tax levy vote in sight for Charlotte College – would allow it
to expand
February 27, 1958 – "Neimans Build Dream House: They Planned
It For Twenty Years" (p. 1B)
Contemporary home at 1930 Providence Road – pictures included
Jack Boyte, architect
February 27, 1958 – "Ross Firm Plans Large New Plant" (p.13B)
F.H. Ross Co., laundry cleaning supplies
New building on Glenwood Ave.
Planned by Charlotte architect, Charles W. Connelly
February 28, 1958 – "Brooklyn Slum Clearance May Get Boost-
Planners’ Study Due
Monday – Report to Analyze Area’s Condition"
(p.1B)
March 2, 1958 – "Rural Development Interest Mushrooms" (p.1D)
March 4, 1958 – "Planners Take Official Action: Brooklyn
Tabbed ‘Blighted’" (p.1B)
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission officially
designated area as blighted area under NC Redevelopment
laws
Map included
March 5, 1958 – "Architects Fight Road Billboards" (p.5A)
Charlotte Council of Architects fight to "keep
superhighways from being blighted by border of signs and
billboards"
March 10, 1958 – aerial view of Charlotte’s Missile Plant –
Statesville Ave & N. Tryon
(p.1B)
March 11, 1958 – "Are Our Schools Too Fancy?"– Gingerbread
Dome Called Money
Saver" (p.1B)
A.G. Odell Jr. being criticized for Garinger High
School design – dome over library
March 12, 1958 – ""Proposed Highways to Ashville Area" (p.5A)
Map
March 21, 1958 – "4-Lane Road To Link Charlotte, Ashville"
(P.1B)
March 25, 1958 – "If Skies Keep Smiling, City Will Have
‘Airtel’ By April 1" (p.8A)
Picture included
March 26, 1958 – " Central Y Building Is Slated" (p.1B)
On Morehead ST. – Architect, Walter Hook
March 26, 1958 – "Airport Growth hits Snag – Expansion Awaits
Word From CAB"
(p.1B)
plans for 7000sq.ft., $164,000 addition pigeonholed
until word from Civil Aeronomics Board about which new
carrier Charlotte will get
March 28, 1958 – "Governing Units Survey Is Pushed" (p.1B)
Goal is a government/civic center in heart of
Brooklyn area –need for space to be determined
March 30, 1958 – "Your ‘Idea’ Home – 3, 116 People Helped
Architects Plan It" (p.1B)
Construction to start in 10 days
Committee of architects: Emory Holroyd, James Malcolm, Harold
Cooler,
& Thomas Rickenbacker
Builder, E. Jack Price, Jr.
Includes sketch and floorplan
April 2, 1958 – "Area of School Offices Debated – City,
County Officials Undecided"
(p.1B)
trying to decide between area inside downtown or in Brooklyn
area
April 3, 1958 – "Park’N’ Shop Opens New Store Today" (p.6A)
Described as "ultra-modern" – Wilkinson Blvd
April 10, 1958 – "picture of model of House of Ideas
April 11, 1958 – "Charlotte Enters Air Link Fight: Airline
Routing Decision Is Hit:
Terminal Expansion Expected" (p.1B)
Greensboro fighting CAB for some of Charlotte’s air services
Charlotte expects to get Eastern Airline service, need new
terminal
April 12, 1958 – ad for Dorsey’s interior decorating – new
showroom at 1412 E. 4th
Street – includes picture (p.8A)
April 16, 1958 – "More Morrison Land Sold For Homes" (p.1B)
113 Acres sold from Morocroft estate for development –Barclay
Downs
April 20, 1958 – "3,116 Designed It, Two Named It: The ‘Echo’
Home" (p.1C)
April 21, 1958 – "Railroad Developing Big Industrial Plaza –
Program To Cost $1
Million" (p.1B)
Seaboard Air Line RR, Hoskin Road industrial development site
April 24, 1958 – "Slum $$ Approval Expected" (p.16A)
Redevelopment Unit plans final action
April 24, 1958 – "Plans Are Amanced For New Subdivision"
(p.16A)
17 acres off Park Road – to be called "Parkstone" – map
included
Allen Tate Co.
May 1, 1958 – "Salvation Army To Dedicate Center" (p.4D)
Marvin W. Helms, architect
Atlantic Construction Co, builders
1023 Central Ave - sketch included
May 4, 1958 – "New Building To Be Started Monday" (p.14A)
J.N. Pease & Company to build their own building/offices
On Independence Blvd., right across from Ovens Auditorium
36,000 sq. ft.
McDevitt & Street, contractors – includes sketch
May 11, 1958 – "Shopping Center To Start: Charlottetown
Project Pushed" (p.1A)
$3-4 million project – picture included
May 12, 1958 – architect’s drawing of pedestrian street at
proposed Charlottetown (p.1B)
May 14, 1958 – "Local Bank Plans $3 Million Building"(p.1A)
American Commercial Bank will demolish old American
Trust Building and build new structure
Walter Hook, architect – includes sketches
May 21, 1958 – "Building of Shopping Center To Begin: $2.5
Million Cotswald Project"
(p.7B)
On Sharon Amity
Charles W. Connelly, Architect
Thompson & Street Construction, builders
June 5, 1958 – "$1.5 Million Shopping Center Is Scheduled"
(p.1B)
Central Square Shopping Center, on Central Ave. and Pecan
Marsh and Hawkins, architects/designers
Laxton Construction Co.
Includes sketches
June 6, 1958 – "NC Portion of Ohio Road Link Approved" (p.1B)
June 10, 1958 – "St. Johns To Build: Church Drive Started"
(p. 9A)
On Carmel Road
Marsh and Hawkins, architects – includes sketch
June 11, 1958 – "$250,000 Building Started" (p.5B)
Atlas Supply Company Plant at Tremont and Camden Road
Rea Construction –gen. contractor
June 11, 1958 – "$400,000 Bowling Alley To Be Built On
Boulevard"
Independence directly across from Coliseum
M. McDowell & Brackett, architects
June 15, 1958 – " ‘Echo Home’ Almost Ready For Grand Opening"
(p.1D)
Grand opening Saturday – includes exterior photo
June 18, 1958 – "Charlotte, Carver To Grow: College Expansion
Mapped – Budget of
$1,442,000 Approved By Trustees" (p.1B)
June 20, 1958 – "Huge Wire Storage Depot Is Planned" (p.11A)
Ashbury Ave.
Sloan, Macintosh, Wheatley, & Benton, Inc., architects
Laxton Construction
Sketch included
June 21, 1958 – "Mutual B&L Buys YMCA – Office Building
Planned" (p.1B)
At South Tryon and 2nd Street
June 22, 1958 – "Opening Day Crowd Inspects Echo Home" (p.
1C)
Pictures included
June 23, 1958 – "The Exodus Is Complete: Now They Have A New
Home" (p.1B)
Resurrection Lutheran Church at 2835 Shenandoah Dr. – picture
included
June 27, 1958 – "Ultra-Modern ‘Co-Op’ Apartment House To Be
Built" (p.15 B)
Wellesley Apartments to be on corner of Selwyn and
Wellesley – scheduled for fall completion
E.L. Vinson of Vinson Real Estate, handling design
and construction
Good description , no sketches
June29, 1958 – " ‘Big Move’ Nears End" (p.17A)
Esso Standard Oil Company has new building completed –
includes picture
July 2, 1958 – "Memorial Nurses’ Home Under Construction"
(P.13C)
At Charlotte Memorial Hospital – 3-story building completed
by next June at
1400 Scott Ave. est. cost, $438, 307
A.G. Odell, Jr., architect
Laxton Construction
July 10, 1958 – "Plans For New County Office Building To Be
Pushed By Bar" (p.1D)
Pushed in advance of Brooklyn redevelopment plans –
propose instead to build on E. 4th Street
across from courthouse
July 17, 1958 – "Bids Near On New Building" (p.12A)
IBM Building to be on 427 E. Morehead – modern design,
2-story
Marsh & Hawkins, architect
July 27, 1958 – "Plush Motel Planned For N. Tryon Street: New
York Chair to Erect
Building" (p.1C)
July 29, 1958 – "Shopping Center To Be Built In Fall On
Plaza" (p.12A)
Shamrock Plaza Center
Tom Rickenbacker, architect
July 29, 1958 – "Local Firm Will Build New Office Warehouse
Facility" (p. 9B)
Geigy Chemical Company to build $600,000-$700,000
building on Old Mt. Holly Road
A.G. Odell, Jr., architect
August 14, 1958 – "Park Road To Be Site Of Center – Proposed
Medical Center"
(p.21A)
across from Park Road Shopping Center
Crosby and Cooler, architects
Sketch included
August 22. 1958 – "Motel Planned On N. Tryon Street" (p. 1B)
$500,000 hotel at Hwy 29 North
architects – Lewis H. Asbury and Associates
to be completed in 6 months
sketch included
August 23, 1958 – ""Local Firms Plan Three Small Buildings"
(p. 11A)
James L. Highsmith and Co. to build at 3600 Monroe Rd (AEA
Engineers)
Read Tull Real Estate to build at corner of Independence and
E. 5th Street
W. Eshelman Co. to build on Montford Drive
August 27, 1958 – "No Funds Assigned: Charlotte 59th
On Slum List" (p.1B)
August 31, 1958 – "Here’s How City Got $5 Million
Charlottetown" (p.2C)
Tentative completion date of first phase of shopping mall is
Oct. 1959
James Rouse, developer
September 3, 1958 – "County Will Ask Voters to Decide on Site
For New Office
Building" (p.1B)
To decide if county offices will go across from or beside
courthouse
September 6, 1958 – "Suburbs or City – Which?" (p.9C)
Two reporters (Home Lovers) Have a Few Words To Say –
outlining all of the advantages of suburban living
September 7, 1958 – "200,000 Expansion Announced: Large Motel
Project Is Planned
For The Barringer Hotel" (p.1D)
Includes pictures
September 10, 1958 – "New Bypass Is Opened" (p.1B)
29 Bypass opened to public September 9th
September 14, 1958 – "Massive Office Buildings Planned For
Downtown: One Will Be
10 Stories High" (p.1A)
J.H. Cutter Co., Inc to build two new office
buildings on S.E. corner of Tryon and 4th
Street
A.G. Odell, Jr. –architect – drawings included
September 21, 1958 – "4th Street Building Site
Campaign Launched: Plan Of Action
Mounted" (p.1D)
By those who want county office across from courthouse
September 26, 1958 –"$500,000 Plant Job To Start" (p.13A)
New Geigy Chemical Plant to be on Old Mt Holly Road
1 story, 50,000 sq.ft.
Laxton Construction C. awarded building contract
October 4, 1958 – "More Parks Are Urged In New Urban
Projects: Board Eyes
Downtown Location" (p.1B)
October 9, 1958 – "Federal Group Okays Urban Renewal Grant"
(p.1C)
Approved for $50,798 to draw up plans for salvaging slum
infested Brooklyn
Set aside $1 million for actual project
October 9, 1958 – "New Esso Building To Be Dedicated" (p.2D)
Building features mural in lobby designed by artist Jack
Pentes – picture
1600 Woodlawn Road
October 10, 1958 – "Esso Dedicates New Building Today" (p.1D)
Included ceremony with Lt. Governor Barnhardt and Billy
Graham
Esso Standard Oil Company – Designed by J.N. Pease
Includes picture, full page ad and picture on p.7D
October 25, 1958 – "$11 Million For County Road Projects
Approved: Wilkinson
Boulevard To Be Widened" (p.1B)
October 26, 1958 – "Dormitory Will Cost $436,000" (p.1B)
At Queens College, to be completed by September 1959
J.N. Pease, architect
Rea Construction, contractor
October 30, 1958 – "Bonds Proposed For County Building Here:
Courthouse Space
Problem Critical" (p.1B)
$2.5 million bond issue proposed
October 30, 1958 – "Independence Classified O-1 By City
Board" (p.1B)
October 30, 1958 – "Recession? It’s Unheard Of At Park Road"
(p.2C)
Park Road Shopping Center marking birthday, includes pictures
and brief history
October 31, 1958 – "NC Bond Issue: 2 Charlotte Colleges May
Get $3.4 Million" (p.1A)
Charlotte and Carver Colleges could get more money for
expansion
November 1, 1958 – "Board OKs $3 Million For Charlotte: 4
Year College Expected To
Grow Here" (p. 1B)
November 2, 1958 – City Gets Sweeping Redevelopment Plans:
Agency Envisions
Glittering Center" (p.1D)
Want 7 buildings for government center in Brooklyn area
Picture, sketch on p.1D ("Planners See Swift Growth")
November 4, 1958 – "Contract Is Awarded For Shopping Center"
(p.1B)
Charlottetown - $3 million first phase ready to start at
Thompson Orphanage Site
McDevitt & Street, contractors (also did Park Rd Shopping
Center)
November 5, 1958 – "Garment Plant To Build $500,000 Plant"
(p.16B)
The Stately Lady Nitewear Manufacturing Company
To build on Highway 16 across from Charlotte Water Works
Godly Brothers Realty and Construction Co.
November 6, 1958 – "Pritchard to Construct $300,000 Building
Here" (p.4B)
Pritchard Paint and Glass Co. to build on corner of Shuman
Road & Dunavant St.
Young Construction, Co., general contractor
Architect’s sketch included
November 7, 1958 – "New Boulevard Planned In City: NC 27 Will
Get New Look"
(p.1B)
$1.5 Million project to turn Freedom Dr. into
full-fledged blvd. Between W. Morehead and 29 bypass
November 11, 1958 – "$4.5 Million, 17 Story Skyscraper To Be
Built" (p.1A)
American Commercial Bank to build on corner of Tryon St. and
4th St.
Architect, Walter Hook and Associates
Related articles: "Aluminum Siding to Cover 17-Story
Building"
"Building Will Have Air Door"
November 16, 1958 – "Railroad Announces Plans For 130-Acre
Industrial Park: Norfolk
Southern To Spend $250,000" (p.16A)
Northeast Mecklenburg county, just beyond Shamrock Road area
Includes picture
November 20, 1958 – "City’s New YMCA Is Designed For
Activities of Three Age
Groups: 6 Stories Of Glass, Concrete and
Brickwork" (p.1B)
Description of layout of building and a picture of the
architect’s model
Walter Hook and Associates, architects
November 23, 1958 – "Proposed Merchandize Mart Already
Anticipates The Need Of A
Fourth Floor" (p.12C)
To be built at Independence near Coliseum
Dwight L. Phillips, builder
Includes architect’s drawing
November 27, 1958 – "New High School to Cost $1, 150,265:
Site Selected On Park
Road" (p.1D)
Building to handle1,000 students – largest contract ever
given out by county
G. L. Wilson, gen. Contractor
December 9, 1958 – "City Names Head Of Redevelopment" (p.1A)
Vernon L. Sawyer appointed to direct slum clearance and
renovation of Brooklyn
December 11, 1958 – "New Frigidaire Building Is Opened"
(p.12D)
2000 Freedom Drive, 1 million sq.ft. building
picture included
December 17, 1958 – "248-Acre Tract Approved For College
Site" (p.1A)
Charlotte College gets tract of land on Highway 49 – map
included
January 11, 1959 – "Architects To Discuss Urban Work" (p.6D)
"urban development and the architect" is theme of NC chapter
of the American Institute of Architects, meeting in Charlotte
January 23, 1959 – "Library ‘Blindfold’ Is Called ‘Disgrace’"
(p.1B)
Grady Clay, real estate and building editor of Louisville
Journal, blasts Charlotte for not buying land around the public
library for a park
January 24, 1959 – "NC’s ‘New Design’ Hailed: State ‘Becoming
A Leader’" (p.5A)
January 24, 1959 – "New Negro Housing Development Opens:
First Of Its Kind Here"
(p.5A)
development called "The Moors" – north of Charlotte
72 acres, houses start at $15,000 – to attract middle and
upper-class African-
Americans
January 25, 1959 – Ad for "The Moors" (p.12D)
January 29, 1959 – "Negro Housing Plan Reported Abandoned"
(p.1C)
"The Moors" project abandoned because of white resident
protest
February 4, 1959 – "New City Building Code Near: State
Expected TO OK Ordinance"
(p.1B)
February 4, 1959 – "Planners Urge Council To OK ‘Hot Corner’
Bill" (p.1B)
Planners want Charlotte exempted from bill that would
require all property at a crossroads to be zoned
business if two corners of the crossing were already
zoned business
February 4, 1959 – "Blight To Disappear: Slum Regions Will
Get The Axe" (p.12C)
February 4, 1959 – "Downtown Charlotte: A Piedmont Gem"
(p.1D)
"Charlotte Is Fastest In Growth"
February 6, 1959 – "Survey For Two New Schools Approved"
(p.16C)
Schools planned for West Charlotte
February 19, 1959 – "New Home Building Methods Described"
(p.8A)
February 19, 1959 – "More City Housing Opposed" (p.1B)
Opposed by Charlotte Board of Realtors – insist that public
housing is not needed,
that "private enterprise (builders) can do the job"
February 21, 1959 – "Brooklyn Work: Two Firms Have The Inside
Track" (p.3A)
Edward W. Waugh, prominent Raleigh architect and planner
E. W. Hill, of Hill & Adley, Associates of Atlanta
Here to help guide the "face-lift" of Brooklyn
February 23, 1959 – "Sardis Road Church Plans Sanctuary"
(p.6A)
Sardis Road Presbyterian Church to erect $400,000 building
Ernest Foard, contractor
Sketch included
February 26, 1959 – "Suburban School Trend Already Apparent
In Charlotte" (p.12A)
February 26, 1959 – "St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Is Sold To
Barringer Hotel Co. :
$150,000 Sales Price Disclosed –
Hotel To Review Design Expansion Plans"
(p. 1B)
February 27, 1959 – "A.G. School Is Nearly Ready To Open"
(p.4A)
New Alexander Graham Junior High on Runnymeade Lane
$984,000
J.N. Pease, architect (picture included)
Robert H. Pinnex, contractor
March 1, 1959 – "Charlotte At The Crossroads: Expansion. . .
People. . . Problems"
(Section C)
Special Section on city’s growing pains – includes map of
growth
March 2, 1959 – "City Traffic Jumps 40% In 10 Years" (p.1A)
March 7, 1959 – "2 Schools To Be Built" (p.1B)
2 elementary schools:
12-room Lansdowne School (white) off of Providence Rd.
10-room Amay James School (black) in western part of county
March 8, 1959 – "Charlotte Needs Land Use Plan: A Hodge-Podge
Or Attractive City Is
Choice" (p.1A)
March 14, 1959 – "New Office Building To Go Up" (p.1B)
Adjacent to YMCA (old or new building?), 3-story, w/
large exterior panels of ceramic tile – scheduled
completion by October
R. Emory Holroyd, architect
Includes sketch
March 19, 1959 – "Sawyer Makes Prediction: Brooklyn ‘Renewal’
Will Pay For Itself"
(p.1B)
March 19, 1959 – "Building’s Approval Expected: School Board
Needs Room" (p.1B)
Joint city-county school administration building to
be built in city – can’t wait for Brooklyn renewal plan
to start
March 20, 1959 – "Brooklyn Families To Be Interviewed" (p.1B)
March 27, 1959 – "Four Contractors To Build New Bank" (p.1B)
American Commercial Bank project, added another story (now 18
stories)
April 3, 1959 – "5-Story Building Planned In City" (p.7A)
Vinson Realty Co. will build and lease building at 317 South
Tryon
$1 Million project will take place of the Law Building
Charles Connelly and Associates, architects
Includes sketch
April 3, 1959 – "Crosstown Traffic Plan Shaping: Million
Dollar Program" (p.1B)
First step is widening 5th Street – map of plans
included
April 5, 1959 – "No Parking 24 Hours a Day: Boulevard – Six
Lanes Open"(p.1D)
Parking spaces taken off of Independence Blvd., now
open to all six lanes of
traffic
April 7, 1959 – Picture of library at Garinger High School
Being Built – Odell design
(p.8A)
April 13, 1959 – "Effird’s Store Name To Disappear In City"
(p.1A)
Department store’s building will be taken over by
Belks – Belks will occupy most of block bound by Tryon,
Trade, N. College, and E. 5th Sts.
Picture included
April 13, 1959 – "New Power Dam Takes Bite Of Mecklenburg
Farmland" (p.11B)
Preparing for effects of Lake Norman
April 17, 1959 – "Charlotte-Elkin Road Plans Near" (p.15C)
4-lane interstate highway planned
April 23, 1959 – "Two Super Speedways Planned Near City"
(p.1A)
Rivals Bruton Smith and Curtis Turner both plan speedways
Smith – building on Hwy 21 South bordering Pineville
Turner – building off Arrowood Road on Hwy 49
Sketch included
April 29, 1959 – "Center Plans Big Addition" (p.10B)
$750,000 Project Will Triple Cotswald Shopping facilities
May 1, 1959 – "3 New Bowling Centers To Be Constructed Here"
(p.4A)
‘modernistic" bowling alleys, catering to the "housewife
bowler"
1st planned for Cotswald Shopping Center by
Sportland, Inc.
Gary E. Crampton and Associates and William H. Dietrick,
architects
Charles W. Connelly, supervising architect
Includes sketch
May 6, 1959 – "Airport Budget May Soar" (p.1C)
May get $1 million to build jet runway – map, drawing
included
May 7, 1959 – "Someday, Charlotte: He Designs New Heart For
Old City" (p.1B)
Architect F.M. Schmitt shows his version of new
downtown in model – totally remodeled area between S.
Tryon and South Church St.
May 8, 1959 – "Employment Bureau Plans New Office" (p.13C)
"Employment Securities Commission to get $150,000,
one-story building at 112 W. 1st St.
Charles Morrison Grier, architect
Sketch included
May 13, 1959 – "New Interstate 85 Route Will Leap Catawba
Soon" (p.1B) |