Myers Park is one of the Premier neighborhoods in North America. In 1905 John Nolen, at thirty six, a recent Harvard graduate with a Masters in Landscape Architecture came to Charlotte to interview George Stephens about designing Myers Park. Nolen's professor and mentor at Harvard was Fredric Law Olmstead Jr. Olmstead's father had designed Central Park in New York, and in his later years the Biltmore Estate for George Vanderbilt. John Nolen went on to be one of the most outstanding landscape architects of the early 1900's. Few suburbs anywhere in the United States exhibit this level of thorough planning.Nolen assured "that the general landscape design would be harmoniously developed under expert control." It is this painstaking attention to detail that helps make Myers Park a landmark in Southern city planning.
Today, Myers Park is very much an in-town neighborhood; only a few minutes drive from the center city. And while it offers convenience and variety with its mix of distinctive retail establishments, restaurants, and some of Charlotte's most notable landmarks, such as Queens University, Myers Park Country Club, and Wing Haven (a garden and bird sanctuary created in 1927), it still maintains its prestige as one of Charlotte's finest residential addresses.
