Commercial Building at 500 North Tryon Street: Other, National Registe

Two-storey commercial building on a street corner with a decorative green and cream tiled facade, large plate-glass shopfronts and a car parked at the kerb. — Commercial building at 500 North Tryon Street. BusinessEditorUSA · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Address	500 N. Tryon St., Charlotte
Architectural style	Other
National Register	ref 92001615, listed 1992-11-20
Research depth	dossier, independently sourced

What we established, and from where

By the time the nomination was written this was the oldest remaining small-scale commercial building on North Tryon Street.
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The nomination states that by 1924 Mecklenburg County led the state in cars per head.
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It was designed by Louis Asbury, whom the nomination describes as MIT-trained and Charlotte's first professionally trained architect.
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The first occupant was the Carolinas Nash Company, which sold Nash and LaFayette cars.
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From 1934 to 1938 a grocery store operated in the building, the first of a run of very different tenants.
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The primary source

The National Register nomination is the fullest account of this property that exists, written by a researcher and reviewed by the State Historic Preservation Office. The nomination (National Park Service).

Commercial Building at 500 North Tryon Street

What we established, and from where

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