Myers Park is an affluent neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina. Though its boundaries originally coincided with the boundaries of the 1,220-acre (4.9 km2) John Spring Myers farm, by 2008 the neighborhood comprised 2,200 acres (8.9 km2) and a population of 9,809. The Myers Park neighborhood is that area bounded by Queens Road on the north; Providence Road on the east; Sharon Road on the south; and Colony Road, East Woodlawn Road, and South Kings Drive on the west.[1] Myers Park is bordered on the north by the lesser known Cherry Community, a historically African-American neighborhood.[2][3] To the west lies Dilworth; to the east, Elizabeth, and to the south, South Park.
Contents |
Of the 9,809 people living in Myers Park in 2008, 2,249 were under 18 years of age; approx. 1,511 were over 64 years of age.[1] There were 4,643 housing units in Myers Park.[1] The median household income was $109,772.[1] The average house value in Myers Park was $778,762.[1]
George Stephens developed a plan for a streetcar suburb on his father-in-law's (John Spring Myers) farm in 1905. The neighborhood was designed by Harvard-trained landscape architect John Nolen, and building got underway by 1911.[4]
The following buses from the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) serve Myers Park:
Providence Road, Kings Drive, and Queens Road are major thoroughfares in Myers Park. The highly confusing intersection of "Queens and Queens and Providence and Providence" in front of the Myers Park Library is legendary, as when traveling toward Uptown Charlotte on Providence Road, one must actually turn right at the intersection to stay on Providence, not go straight.
Residents of Myers Park attend Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, including Myers Park High School, Alexander Graham Middle School, Myers Park Traditional Elementary School, and Selwyn Elementary School.
Myers Park is served by the Myers Park branch of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.[5] The library is located at the corner of Queens Road and Providence Road.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||