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The Fourth Ward Walking Tour — 48 stops across Historic Fourth Ward

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A self-guided walking tour of Historic Fourth Ward, Charlotte

The self-guided walking tour of Historic Fourth Ward is maintained by Friends of Fourth Ward, the 501(c)(3) that has stewarded the neighborhood since 1976. The tour documents 48 stops across the neighborhood — Victorian and Queen Anne houses, early-20th-century apartment buildings, four historic churches, the oldest burial ground in Charlotte, the Junior League's flagship 1970s restoration, the McColl Center, and a handful of the most ornate architectural survivals in the city.

Mercury Local is rebuilding the tour stop-by-stop as native web pages. Each stop carries Friends of Fourth Ward's narrative as the primary source, Mercury Local editorial framing, and — where the subject also has a building profile, a restaurant page, or a neighborhood reference on this site — inline cross-links. The full printed version remains available from Friends of Fourth Ward at fourthwardclt.org.

The 13 stops on the CMHLC historic-designation list

# Building Address Year Style
4 Overcarsh House 326 W 8th Street 1879 Queen Anne
10 Crowell-Berryhill Store 401 W 9th Street 1897 Victorian (now Alexander Michael's)
15 Berryhill House 324 W 9th Street 1884 Victorian Italianate (Junior League flagship)
26 Lyles-Sims House 523 N Poplar Street 1867 Modified Queen Anne
27 Sloan-Davidson House 314 W 8th Street 1820 Folk Victorian
35 The Poplar 301 W 10th Street 1930 Jacobean Revival
36 Young-Morrison House 226 W 10th Street 1885 Queen Anne / Italianate (now Spaghett)
37 First A.R.P. / McColl Center 721 N Tryon Street 1926 Gothic Revival
39 Liddell-McNinch House 511 N Church Street 1890 Queen Anne Shingle
42 Dunhill Hotel 237 N Tryon Street 1929 Neoclassical
44 First Presbyterian Church 200 W Trade Street 1857 Gothic Revival
47 NC Medical College / Settlers Place 229 N Church Street 1905 Colonial Revival
48 Saint Peters Hospital 229 N Poplar Street 1878 Georgian Revival

All 48 stops, by street

N. Poplar Street & the Park area

N. Pine Street

W. 8th and W. 9th Streets

W. 10th Street

N. Tryon Street & N. Church Street

Architectural-style index

  • Federal (1820, 1850): Sloan-Davidson House (stop 27), McCausland-Taylor House (stop 32)
  • Gothic Revival (1857–1926): First Presbyterian (stop 44), McColl Center (stop 37), First United Methodist (stop 40)
  • Victorian Gothic (1895): St. Peter's Episcopal (stop 41)
  • Queen Anne (multiple, 1879–1906): Overcarsh, Morrison-Lawry, Lyles-Sims, Sheppard, Torrance, and many more
  • Queen Anne Shingle (1890): Liddell-McNinch House (stop 39) — "one of the finest in North Carolina" per FOFW
  • Queen Anne / Italianate (1885): Young-Morrison House (stop 36)
  • Victorian Italianate (1884): Berryhill House (stop 15) — flagship of the 1970s restoration
  • Eastlake Cottage (1894, 1895): 601 N Pine (stop 11), Bootlegger House (stop 33)
  • Craftsman Bungalow (1895, 1903): Fennimore House (stop 17), 312 W 9th (stop 23), and the "Mother-in-Law" House (stop 9)
  • Colonial Revival (1900s, 1905): 416 N Poplar (stop 31), NC Medical College (stop 47)
  • Greek Revival (1913): 326 W 10th (stop 34)
  • Italian Renaissance Revival (1927): Frederick Apartments (stop 38)
  • Jacobean Revival (1930): The Poplar (stop 35)
  • Neoclassical (1929): Mayfair Manor / Dunhill Hotel (stop 42)
  • French Chateauresque (1895): Bagley-Mullen House (stop 45) — "the only local example"
  • Georgian Revival (1878): Saint Peters Hospital (stop 48)
  • Modified Queen Anne (1867): Lyles-Sims House (stop 26) — rare 19th-century survivor
  • Folk Victorian (1820): Sloan-Davidson House (stop 27) — the oldest on the tour

The history behind the tour

The Friends of Fourth Ward self-walking-tour document is a primary reference for anyone trying to understand why Historic Fourth Ward looks the way it does — the mix of Victorian-era houses, early-20th-century apartment buildings, and four historic churches is a direct record of Charlotte's late-19th-century prosperity, the early-1900s trolley-driven suburban flight that caused the neighborhood's decline, and the 1976 Junior League-led restoration that reversed it. See our neighborhood history reference and buildings directory for the long-form context.

Corrections are welcome at the publisher contact listed on our about page.

Sources

  • Friends of Fourth Ward, Fourth Ward Historic District Self-Walking Tour (PDF, 2016 revision). Retrieved April 24, 2026. fourthwardclt.org.