The new owners of the historic Excelsior Club today announced they are seeking distinguished Black architects from around the nation to participate in the redevelopment and revival of the Club, a longtime epicenter of African-American politics and culture in North Carolina.
The Excelsior Club opened in 1944 as a fashionable nightclub that attracted Black professionals and politicians from around Charlotte as members. It remained a mainstay of the community for decades, until its closure in 2016. By 2019, it had fallen into such serious disrepair that the property was named one of the nation’s 11 most endangered historic places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
