Seversville
One of Charlotte’s oldest west-side neighborhoods, next to Wesley Heights and Camp Greene, with new construction filling the gaps between original cottages.
Seversville is the small historic neighborhood northwest of Wesley Heights, platted in the 1890s as a white working-class settlement near the mills and built out through the 1940s. It sits between Biddleville’s university community and the streetcar suburbs, and its history, per the Levine Museum of the New South, is the history of how Charlotte’s west side sorted itself.
Where it is
- Tuckaseegee Road, the commercial edge
- Rozzelles Ferry Road, the old route to the river crossing
- State Street to the north
- The Gold Line’s Bruns Avenue and Irwin Avenue stops
- The Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center and Bruns Avenue Elementary
If you’re moving here
Seversville is quieter and cheaper than Wesley Heights and shares its advantages: a bike ride to Uptown, the stadium fifteen minutes on foot, and the streetcar. The housing is small cottages, some restored and some waiting, with new townhouses filling the vacant lots. It suits a buyer who wants to be close to Uptown at the lowest price the west side offers, and who’s comfortable being early. The aquatic center’s pool is the summer.
If you’re visiting
- Walk through on the West End guide‘s route from Uptown to the university
- Visit Elmwood and Pinewood Cemetery, a walk east; the cemetery guide explains its fence
- Seversville has few storefronts of its own; the businesses below are the nearest along Tuckaseegee, Morehead and Wilkinson