Demolished after listing

Checked against published sources on October 4, 2026. This is a history and research guide, not a verified walking route. Addresses identify historic sites unless stated otherwise; they do not establish present-day entrances, public access or surviving buildings.

National Register listing recognizes historical significance. It does not, by itself, prevent a non-federal owner from demolishing a building. Federal involvement can trigger additional review, and state or local rules may also apply. The National Park Service FAQ explains these distinctions under “What are the restrictions, rules, regulations for historic property owners?” For the local context, read how historic designation works in Charlotte.

These are nine selected cases, not a count of everything Charlotte has lost. The list includes eight demolished or otherwise lost properties and one relocated property removed from its original National Register listing. Buildings that were never listed, losses within larger districts and the disruption of entire communities cannot be measured by counting these entries.

A historic nomination describes a place at the time it was documented. Read it alongside later records before assuming the building still stands. The North Carolina preservation office’s listing index marks several properties here as “Gone”; that label does not explain when or how each was lost.

Demolished after listing

Independence Building

Historic address: 100–102 West Trade Street, at Trade and Tryon National Register listing: September 18, 1978 Demolished: September 1981

The Independence Building’s history contains two distinct architectural chapters. Frank P. Milburn designed the original 1908–09 building; William L. Stoddart designed the major 1927–28 renovation, which added its top two stories. The nomination describes Renaissance design in the Beaux-Arts tradition. The later work changed the original high-rise substantially.

The building was imploded in September 1981, about three years after listing. Its nomination remains useful for studying its appearance and the city’s early high-rise business district, but it is not evidence of a surviving building to visit.

Original nomination, PDF · State Library’s NCpedia account

Hotel Charlotte

Historic address in the nomination: 327 West Trade Street National Register listing: July 2, 1979 Demolished: 1988

Hotel Charlotte opened in March 1924, with 250 rooms, to a design by William L. Stoddart and construction by J. A. Jones. The nomination records both its commercial role and its architecture. It later operated under the Queen Charlotte and White House names.

The hotel is gone. The state’s listing index records that loss, and a later Charlotte Observer retrospective dates demolition to 1988. The street number above is the historic nomination address, not a current hotel booking address or visitor entrance.

Merchants and Farmers National Bank Building

Historic address: 123 East Trade Street National Register listing: March 1, 1984 Status: gone; demolition date not established by the sources checked here

Built in 1871–72, this three-story Italianate bank building linked Charlotte’s post-Civil War commercial growth to its later banking history. Its nomination identifies its original banking use and records its architect as unknown. The bank moved to other quarters in 1921; the building’s history did not end when the bank moved.

The state index marks the building “Gone.” That is stronger evidence for its status than for a particular demolition date. We have not assigned a year on the basis of an unsourced summary.

Charlotte Supply Company Building

Historic address: 500 South Mint Street National Register listing: March 1, 1984 Status: demolished; published accounts differ on the date

Completed in 1925 after construction began in 1924, Charlotte Supply combined offices, manufacturing and warehouse space. Lockwood, Greene & Company designed it; Blythe and Isenhour built it. Its history belongs to the network of suppliers that kept the region’s textile mills operating, rather than to a vanished era when this was the only kind of work in the area.

The original nomination describes the building and its business. A later state-hosted Textile Mill Supply Company nomination places Charlotte Supply’s demolition in the mid-1990s in connection with stadium development. Earlier versions of this guide gave June 1991. We have not reconciled that discrepancy, so no exact demolition date is asserted here.

Do not confuse this lost building with the separate Textile Mill Supply Company property at 1300 South Mint Street.

Thomas Trotter Building

Historic address: 108 South Tryon Street National Register listing: May 23, 1985 Status: demolished; exact date unresolved in this guide

The Thomas Trotter Building belonged to the nineteenth-century commercial row on South Tryon. Charlotte’s 1985 designation ordinance identifies the building and its address. The state’s report index records it as gone and removed from the National Register.

The demolition chronology needs care. A UNC Charlotte Urban Institute account dates the loss to 1988, while this guide previously gave May 1987. We have not resolved the difference using a contemporaneous demolition record. The date of a newspaper report about a planned demolition should not be treated as the completion date.

Barringer Hotel and Hall House

Historic address: 426 North Tryon Street National Register listing: August 29, 2011 Demolition: began in 2022 and was completed in 2023, according to INLIVIAN

The Barringer Hotel opened in 1940. Its architects were Bobbie Dial and Albert Thomas, and its builder was the Jno. C. Heslep Company. The National Register nomination documents its Art Deco design and later identity as Hall House.

INLIVIAN’s 2023 annual report to HUD, page 76, gives the 2022–23 demolition window. Its adopted FY2026 budget, page 19, says Trella Uptown was completed on the former hotel site and began leasing in fall 2025. The new residential development is a separate building, not a restored Barringer Hotel. This history guide does not establish visitor access to the residential property.

Rural properties demolished by 2015

The state’s current index identifies these two southern Mecklenburg County properties as “Gone.” Both were listed on February 21, 1991. Charlotte’s 2015 architectural survey, printed page 5, reports that both had been demolished. Their exact demolition dates have not been established here.

John Washington McKinney House

Historic address: 7332 Providence Road West

The McKinney House was an older farmhouse substantially enlarged and remodeled in the Colonial Revival style around 1916. Calling it simply a 1916 house loses that earlier layer. The nomination, Section 7, describes the transformation of an 1870s I-house and the farm buildings that surrounded it when surveyed. Those descriptions are historical evidence, not current access instructions.

Green Morris Farm

Historic location: west side of Tom Short Road, identified in the nomination as SR 3628, about a mile south of its junction with Providence Road West

The nomination describes a farmhouse dating to about 1870, with Greek Revival and Italianate details, and a surrounding agricultural landscape. The farm was significant for both architecture and agriculture. Its nomination photographs and maps show the property as documented around the time of listing; they are not a present-day trail map or permission to enter land at the former site.

Relocated and delisted

Dinkins House and Lodge

Original National Register listing: December 4, 1973 Status: relocated buildings; original-site listing removed

Dinkins is not another demolition entry. The state report index records the original-site listing as removed. Mecklenburg County’s Dinkins House and Lodge history says the buildings were sold in 1992 and moved to their current site. It lists 2400 Summerlake Road and 6425 Gaywind Drive, Charlotte, and identifies the property as a local historic landmark.

Removal from the National Register and local landmark status are different matters. A building can survive a move while losing its original setting. The county’s history also records enslaved people among the property inherited within the Dinkins family; the story of a planter’s house includes the people whose forced labor supported that household.

The county record establishes the relocated location, not opening hours or a public tour. Do not assume that a listed address gives permission to enter the grounds.

Neighborhood loss and community survival

A list of buildings cannot describe the full consequences of urban renewal. Homes were also places of family life; shops, schools and churches sustained relationships that did not move intact when their buildings disappeared.

Brooklyn, in Second Ward, was a major center of Black life and business in segregated Charlotte. It included residents with different incomes, professions and housing conditions. Describing the entire neighborhood only through the redevelopment agencies’ label of “blight” leaves out that community.

UNC Charlotte’s neighborhood guide reports 1,480 demolished homes and 1,007 displaced families, and says replacement housing was not built as part of the Brooklyn clearance it describes. Treat those as attributed historical figures, not a complete count newly calculated for this guide. The project’s chronology extends beyond a simple 1960–67 label: the university’s detailed timeline records a fifth phase beginning in 1969 and the final phase ending in 1977.

Greenville and Irwinville were also affected by urban renewal, but their story is not simply an absence. Atkins Library’s Greenville history describes residents’ efforts to obtain replacement homes, Margaret Green Harris’s 1972 housing lawsuit and later rebuilding. These sources document both displacement and community action. The neighborhood’s later housing cannot be treated as proof that everyone displaced was able to return.

Read the Brooklyn guide, explore Charlotte’s historic neighborhood histories, and listen to the people represented in the Brooklyn Oral History Project. Official files and residents’ accounts answer different questions; both belong in the story.

The historical photograph

This photograph shows the Barringer Hotel, later known as Hall House, on May 2, 2008. It records a building that no longer stands. Archival images in the linked nominations can help you study the other properties, but an image being publicly viewable does not automatically grant permission to republish it.

See also

See also: How historic designation works in Charlotte · An architecture walk through Uptown · Charlotte’s historic cemeteries

How to follow the evidence: use the linked nominations for original descriptions, the state listing index for its published status labels, and the later records cited in each entry for demolition or relocation. A register entry is not a current visitor listing. Where dates disagree or have not been established, this guide says so.