Explore the records
Every park, every work of public art, every designated historic place, the greenway network and the datasets underneath all of it — browsable by the axes the data actually supports.
These are records, not articles. Each one shows what a public body actually holds about a place, with the source named and the date it was checked. Where a record is only a verified listing — confirmed, but nobody has read its nomination yet — the page says so instead of padding it out.
And the rest of it
The greenway map
Every active segment and all 419 public entrances, coloured by surface, with recorded parking marked.
/outdoors/greenway-map/The directory
2,038 verified places, businesses and organisations. Searchable, and honest about which are researched and which are only listed.
/directory/Open data
The datasets behind this guide as CSV, with their sources and their caveats attached. Free to use commercially.
/data/All 54 guides
Everything written so far, grouped by what you might actually be doing.
/guides/Historic places by architectural style
The style comes from the National Park Service register entry or the county building record, not from our judgement of the building.
Historic places by town
Mecklenburg County contains Charlotte plus six other incorporated towns. A Charlotte postal address does not mean a place is in the City of Charlotte.
Public art by place
- Charlotte Douglas International Airport · 35 works
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library · 20 works
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department · 12 works
- Charlotte Convention Center · 10 works
- Hal Marshall Center · 9 works
- Spectrum Center · 8 works
- Charlotte Fire Department · 5 works
- The Charlotte Uptown Square · 4 works
- Animal Control Facility · 4 works
- Central Avenue Streetscape · 4 works
- NASCAR Hall of Fame · 4 works
- Mecklenburg County Courthouse · 4 works
Public art by artist
Neighbourhood history
How Charlotte's neighbourhoods were made
Most of what gets written about Charlotte's neighbourhoods is estate-agent copy. This page is built from a different kind of…
/neighbourhoods/how-they-were-made/Thirteen Charlotte neighbourhoods, and where their histories are written down
Charlotte is often described as a city that knocked down its own past. That is true in places — and one of those places…
/neighbourhoods/historic-series/Dilworth
Dilworth was laid out for Edward Dilworth Latta, and it kept his middle name. The National Register of Historic Places lists it…
/neighbourhoods/dilworth/NoDa (North Charlotte)
NoDa is short for North Davidson, the street it grew up along. The name is recent; the place is not. On the National Register of…
/neighbourhoods/noda-north-charlotte/The Historic West End
West of Uptown, around the campus of Johnson C. Smith University, is a network of neighbourhoods that has been the centre of…
/neighbourhoods/historic-west-end/University City
Charlotte's north-eastern quarter is organised around a university, a boulevard and a rail line, and that is more interesting…
/neighbourhoods/university-city/Brooklyn: the neighbourhood Charlotte demolished
If you stand in Charlotte's Second Ward today — among the government buildings, the car parks and Marshall Park — you are…
/history/brooklyn/Who designed Charlotte: the planned suburbs
Drive through Dilworth, Myers Park or Elizabeth and the streets curve where a developer working to a grid would have run them…
/history/planned-suburbs/Built from National Register nomination documents rather than from other guides. There is no safety ranking here and there will not be one.