Wilmore is one of Charlotte's oldest neighborhoods, platted in the early 1900s by developer F.C. Abbott's Suburban Real Estate Company on farmland once owned by two men named Wilson and Moore, whose names combined into…

Uptown is Charlotte's original downtown, the square mile inside the I-277 loop that the rest of the city grew up around. Charlotte-Mecklenburg's founders laid it out in the 1760s as four wards fanning out from the…

Elizabeth got its start in 1891 as Charlotte's second streetcar suburb, laid out in five subdivisions just east of the young city center along a trolley line that reached full service by 1902. The neighborhood takes its…

White Hall is an established Steele Creek neighborhood in southwest Charlotte, built mostly in the mid-to-late 1980s by Helmsman Homes off Olde Whitehall Road and Coffey Creek Drive. It's one of the more affordable,…

The Sanctuary is a gated, 1,300-acre private community on the Mecklenburg County shore of Lake Wylie, tucked off Shopton Road West about 20 minutes southwest of uptown Charlotte. It's an unusually low-density luxury…

The Gates at Waters Edge sits in Steele Creek, the fast-growing corner of southwest Charlotte tucked between Charlotte Douglas International Airport and the shoreline of Lake Wylie. Steele Creek was mostly farmland…

Seven Eagles was Charlotte's first guard-gated community, developed in the 1980s by the Harris Land Company as the first phase of a roughly 120-acre master-planned neighborhood beside Quail Hollow Club, home of the PGA…

Providence Pointe is a Shea Homes community built between roughly 2001 and 2007 in the Ballantyne area of south Charlotte, tucked off Johnston Road (NC-521) near its junction with Lancaster Highway and just a couple of…

Providence Point is a residential community in the Ballantyne area of south Charlotte, tucked into the Providence Road corridor that has lent its name to more subdivisions than almost any other stretch of Mecklenburg…

Morrocroft Estates is a gated, guard-staffed enclave of roughly 90 estate homesites tucked into the heart of SouthPark, one of Charlotte's most established and expensive addresses. The neighborhood takes its name from…

Heydon Hall is a gated enclave of custom estate homes tucked off Smithfield Church Road in the Quail Hollow area of South Charlotte, just beyond Quail Hollow Country Club. Wrought-iron entrance gates open onto gently…

Eastover is Charlotte's most storied address, a 1920s garden suburb laid out by planner Earle Sumner Draper for the E.C. Griffith Company at a time when the city was booming with elegant, curving new neighborhoods. Its…

Challis Farm is a gated enclave of custom estate homes in South Charlotte, built around an 18-acre private lake just off Elm Lane near Piper Glen and Carmel Country Club. Simonini Homes and other custom builders raised…

Bridgehampton is a John Wieland Homes community built mostly between 1999 and 2006 in the Ballantyne area of south Charlotte, tucked off Providence Road near Elon Park and Ardrey Kell High. Its roughly 544 homes run…

Berewick is one of the largest master-planned communities in southwest Charlotte's Steele Creek area, a 1,070-acre neighborhood that Charlotte developer Pappas Properties has been building out since 1999 near the shores…

Ayrsley is a master-planned, live-work-play community in Charlotte's Steele Creek area, built out by Charlotte developer New Forum starting in the mid-2000s right where South Tryon Street meets I-485. It's best known…

Atherton, also known as Atherton Mill, is the historic mixed-use district anchoring the north end of South End in Charlotte, built around the shell of the 1893 Atherton Cotton Mill, the first industrial mill in the old…

South End grew up around Charlotte's first railroad, built in the 1850s to connect the city to Columbia and Charleston, and by the early 1900s the corridor was lined with cotton mills, including Atherton Mill, along…

Plaza Midwood is Charlotte's original streetcar suburb, laid out in 1903 when a trolley line ran down Central Avenue and up The Plaza to carry residents into town. More than a century later the neighborhood is still…

Myers Park is the neighborhood most people picture when they hear "old Charlotte money." Landscape architect John Nolen laid it out in 1911 on what had been Jack Myers' farmland.