In its ascent to becoming a top-20 city, Charlotte has demolished one-by-one a greater proportion of its historic buildings than were lost to Chicago in the great Chicago Fire or to San Francisco in the 1906 earthquake. This book brings back in pictures and essays 100 of Old Charlotte’s architectural treasures that disappeared in the city’s pursuit of ever-greater prominence on the world stage. This book is for anyone who wants to remember Old Charlotte or help preserve what remains of it.