Mint Museum of Art
N 35° 11.981 W 080° 48.782
17S E 517019 N 3895203
Operated as Branch U.S. Mint 1837-61. Relocated to present site as art museum, 1936. Building expanded, 1968 and 1985.
Waymark Code: WM1QVB
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 06/26/2007
Views: 69
Text on marker:
Mint Museum of Art
Operated as Branch U.S. Mint 1837-61. Relocated to present site as art museum, 1936. Building expanded, 1968 and 1985.
This historical marker is located at the Mint Museum of Art at 2730 Randolph Rd in Charlotte, NC. It was erected in 1976.
The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources has
an essay on the Mint Museum of Art, from which the following is
excerpted:
Following gold discovery on the Reed farm in Cabarrus County in 1799, a genuine gold rush had ensued in North Carolina by 1825. Prior to 1828 all gold sent to the United States Mint was from North Carolina. It was difficult and expensive for miners to take their gold to the Philadelphia Mint, and most of the nation’s gold was coming from the Southern states; consequently, in 1830, Southerners began lobbying for branch mints to be placed in their region. Branch Mint legislation became law in 1835, authorizing branches in Charlotte;...In 1933, when the Mint building was being threatened by post office expansion, it was purchased by a group of citizens led by Mary Myers Dwelle. The building was sketched by Charlotte architect Martin C. Boyer and then was moved piece by piece from its location on West Trade Street (between Mint and Graham Streets) to its present location between Eastover and Randolph Roads, on land donated by E. C. Griffith Sr."
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