2 new historic landmarks designated in Charlotte. Here’s where
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Charlotte officially has two more landmarks
City Council members voted unanimously Monday to designate the Dr. Charles W. and Vivian L. Williams House in north Charlotte and Ziglar-Bowers House in west Charlotte as historic landmarks.
The Dr. Charles W. and Vivian L. Williams House, built in 1963 in the Hyde Park Estate neighborhood, is described by the city as “a well-preserved example of a large split-level ranch home with brick veneer, expansive windows, deep eaves and contemporary details.”
The home is significant not just for its architecture but also as the former home of Dr. Charles Warren Williams, the city notes. Williams helped integrate the North Carolina Medical Society and Charlotte Memorial Hospital.
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He and his wife, teacher Vivian Lewie Williams, “were instrumental in the design and development of Hyde Park Estates, a suburban upper-middle class neighborhood for Black professionals on the Beatties Ford Road corridor.”
Located at 5906 Crestwood Drive, the Landmark Designation Report for the property puts its value at $435,100.
The Ziglar-Bowers House at 421 Heathcliff St., is one of “only two surviving Craftsman-Colonial Revival residences in the Wesley Heights neighborhood,” the city says.
The home, built in 1923 for Frank Ziglar and Jennie Lee Davis Ziglar, “is also significant for its associative history of Charlotte’s mid-twentieth century urban demographic transition”
“They purchased lots in Wesley Heights, one of the last inner-ring suburban developments in Charlotte, which attracted white collar professionals like engineer Frank Ziglar,” the Landmark Designation Report says. “They sold the house in 1937, and it was purchased by Paul Chadwick Bowers and Juanita Lucille Hicks Bowers. Redlining in the late 1930s led to a shift to white working-class residents, like the Bowerses. Urban Renewal and blockbusting practices in Wesley Heights accelerated the demographic transition from overwhelmingly white to majority Black in the 1970s.”
The property is currently valued at $625,200.
This story was originally published August 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM.
