Trust Building and Academy of Music
Contributors:
C. C. Hook, architect;
Hook and Sawyer, architects;
Nicholas Ittner, contractor;
Frank M. Sawyer, architect
Dates:
1901-1902
Location:
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County
Street Address:
210-212 S. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC
Status:
No longer standing
Type:
Commercial
Images Published In:
Mary Norton Kratt and Mary Manning Boyer, Remembering Charlotte: Postcards from a New South City, 1905-1950 (2000).
William T. Simmons and Lindsay L. Brooks, Charlotte and Mecklenburg County: A Pictorial History (1977).
Note:
The ornate 6-story office building, featuring classical and Chateauesque details, was one of the largest and tallest in downtown Charlotte at its completion. It contained an opera house known as the Academy of Music. It burned in 1922. The building is shown at the center of this block.
