In its ascent to becoming a top-20 city, Charlotte, North Carolina, 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.
Through photographs and brief essays, 100 Lost Architectural Treasures of Old Charlotte brings back 100 buildings that came and went as Charlotte\'s population burgeoned from being the nation\'s 60th largest city in 1970 to being.
In its ascent to becoming a top-20 city, Charlotte, North Carolina, 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