First Ward · 7th Street

First Baptist Church (Spirit Square)

McMichael's domed 1909 sanctuary beside the old Carnegie library — a Baptist church that became Spirit Square's concert hall in the 1970s.

  • Historical
  • Landmark
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Address
318 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202
From your base
Sorts every list here by walk time.

The take

A sanctuary that became a music room is a rarer conversion than it sounds, and this one kept its dome through the change. Carnegie put five thousand toward the organ on condition the design agreed with his library next door — look at the two buildings together.

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