Charlotteans today know the Myers Park neighborhood as one of the city's premier addresses, an area of fine homes, tree-lined streets, and curving drives. This neighborhood was designed in the early 1900s by two expert city planners who would later become remembered for their tree-lined avenues, John Nolen and Earle Sumner Draper. You will note, when driving through Myers Park, the winding streets, many of which have large medians between the lanes. These medians were once home to the tracks for the trolleys which ran from downtown to outlying neighborhoods. Since the trolleys were disbanded many years ago, the tracks have been removed and the medians now have planting strips, grass areas and a beautiful canopy of oaks and maples. It is especially beautiful in the spring when the hundreds of azaleas and dogwoods are in bloom and the hardwoods are regrowing their leaves.
Architecture in this neighborhood consists mainly of brick Georgian-style homes with expansive lawns that are synonymous with Southern living. Myers Park is also home to Queens University.