Stop 48 — Saint Peters Hospital

Address: 229 North Poplar Street Year built: 1878 Style: Georgian Revival Designation: CMHLC historic landmark Prior uses: Hospital → hotel → condominium

The Old St. Peter's Hospital at 229 North Poplar is an 1878 Georgian Revival-style building. Per Friends of Fourth Ward, it has served successively as a general hospital, a hotel, and now a condominium.

Architectural notes

Per FOFW: "It is a large Georgian Revival style building with warm red brick walls, picturesque stepped gable ends of Flemish derivation, and simple wooden classical details."

The stepped gable ends of Flemish derivation are particularly worth noting — Flemish stepped gables are a late-medieval and early-modern Northern European architectural device, uncommon on American Georgian Revival buildings and one of the specific features that makes Saint Peters Hospital a recognized historic landmark.

Context

Saint Peters Hospital is one of the earliest surviving institutional buildings in Historic Fourth Ward — predating the bulk of the Queen Anne residential stock by a decade or more. Its 1878 date places it in the same early-post-Civil War construction wave as the 1867 Lyles-Sims House (stop 26), and it is one of the tour's clearest physical links to Charlotte's late-19th-century institutional build-out.

The end of the tour

Stop 48 closes the 48-stop Fourth Ward walking tour. From here, it is a short walk back north to Fourth Ward Park (stop 1) and the start of the loop.

← Stop 47 · Back to walking tour hub

Source: Friends of Fourth Ward, Self-Walking Tour (2016). Retrieved April 24, 2026.