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Home Federal Building

Home Federal Building: International Style, National Register listed 2008-01-30.

Six-storey mid-century office building with strongly projecting horizontal floor bands, on a street corner with a mirrored tower rising behind.
Home Federal Building. Mx. Granger · CC0 · source
Address139 S. Tryon St., Charlotte
Architectural styleInternational Style
National Registerref 07001499, listed 2008-01-30
Research depthdossier, independently sourced

What we established, and from where

  • Home Federal hired Walter Hook and Associates of Charlotte in the mid-1960s to design its new building.

    independent National Park Service / NC SHPO · checked 2026-09-17

  • The upper storeys alternate precast concrete sunshades with bands of smoky brown window glass.

    independent National Park Service / NC SHPO · checked 2026-09-17

  • The sunshades read as balconies from the street but do not project far enough to be used as such.

    independent National Park Service / NC SHPO · checked 2026-09-17

  • Each window pivots 360 degrees from a pin centred in the width of the window.

    independent National Park Service / NC SHPO · checked 2026-09-17

  • The nomination records that the building had remained vacant since it was sold.

    independent National Park Service / NC SHPO · checked 2026-09-17

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).

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