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34-475: In 2018, The Mint Museum announced Todd A. Herman, PhD, former Executive Director at The Arkansas Arts Center, as the new president and CEO. Bruce LaRowe, former Executive Director of Children's Theatre of Charlotte, was the Interim CEO on June 21, 2017. He assumed the role after the end of Dr. Kathleen V. Jameson's presidency in 2017. Mint Museum Randolph resides in a federal style building that once housed

68-724: A complete collection of all gold coins minted at the Charlotte Mint. The museum also includes a reference library with over 15,000 volumes and a theater featuring lectures and performances. Charlotte Mint gold coins range from scarce to extremely rare. They are some of the most desired items in numismatics today. Levine Center for the Arts Levine Center for the Arts on South Tryon Street in Charlotte, North Carolina , includes Bechtler Museum of Modern Art ,

102-433: A full square containing 4 acres of land for $ 1,500.00, which is now the 400 block of West Trade Street. Proposals for erection of the building were advertised and the contract was awarded to Perry & Ligon, of Raleigh, NC on October 15, 1835 at a price of $ 29,800.00. In 1836, construction on the Charlotte Mint began. It opened for business on July 27, 1837. Only raw gold was processed and refined until March 28, 1838, when

136-468: A planned renovation of its Randolph Road campus, the museum announced in April 2012 that it will open a research center based on North Carolina pottery at the facility. The research center will offer relics in the extensive collection for study and open its pottery archives to scholars and students for study. The pottery archives currently includes 19,000 volumes. The Mint Museum of History began in 1976 at

170-514: A separate space to house the museum's craft and design collection in Charlotte's Uptown. Its permanent collection has been described as "complex and eclectic", featuring "everything from fine jewelry to fiber arts, from wacky, satirical, narrative ceramic sculpture...to product design." The museum closed in February 2010 to begin a move from its building on North Tryon Street to its new home in

204-777: Is the largest visual arts institution in Charlotte and holds the largest public collection of Charlotte-born artist Romare Bearden 's work. The American Art collection comprises approximately 900 works created between the late 1700s and circa 1945. It includes portraiture of the Federal era, 19th century landscapes, and paintings from the group known as " The Eight " ( Robert Henri , George Luks , William Glackens , John Sloan , Everett Shinn , Maurice Prendergast , Ernest Lawson , and Arthur Bowen Davies ). Additional highlights in this area include works by John Singleton Copley , Gilbert Stuart , Thomas Sully , and Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole and Sanford Gifford . The Art of

238-554: The 2007–2009 financial crisis , the only part of the tower built was the Knight Theater, until the Museum Tower opened in 2017. The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture would have four floors, cost $ 18.6 million and have 45,000 square feet (4,200 m ) of gallery, classroom, and administrative space. It was dedicated October 24, 2009. After Wells Fargo announced its takeover of Wachovia ,

272-619: The Charlotte Mint . Opening in 1936, it was the first art museum in North Carolina , USA. The permanent collections include American Art , Ancient American Art, American and European ceramics , American and European Decorative Art , North Carolina Pottery , historic costume and fashionable dress and accessories, African Art , Asian Art , historic maps, Contemporary art , and photography. The companion Mint Museum of Craft + Design focuses on contemporary craft. The Mint Museum

306-819: The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture , the Knight Theater , and the Mint Museum Uptown . It was named for Leon Levine , whose foundation provided financing. After a year of study by the Arts & Science Council, the 25-year Cultural Facilities Master Plan became a reality in November 2003. The plan was the next stage following a 1976 plan that led to such projects as Spirit Square , Discovery Place , and North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center . The $ 236 million first phase, including an $ 84 million endowment , included moving

340-493: The Hezekiah Alexander House on Shamrock Drive. The Mint Museum ran the site until 1987, when the city's parks and recreation department took over. At that time the name changed to Charlotte Museum of History . 35°11′51″N 80°48′53″W  /  35.1974°N 80.8146°W  / 35.1974; -80.8146 Charlotte Mint The Charlotte Mint was the first United States branch mint . It

374-581: The Mint Museum uptown, a new contemporary art museum named for Andreas Bechtler , a new Afro-American Cultural Center, and a 1200-seat theater. These projects were included in a 2001 bond referendum that voters rejected. The Cultural Facilities Master Plan led to the Campaign for Cultural Facilities in 2006. In addition to an endowment planned by the Arts & Science Council, and $ 35 million from Bank of America , Duke Energy and Wachovia Corp.,

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408-485: The $ 150.5 million plan was to be financed by property taxes on a development by Wachovia, as well as a 4 percent tax on car rentals which would have to be approved by the North Carolina General Assembly , and specifically by all legislators from Mecklenburg County . Wachovia was building an office tower and parking garage, though if financing was approved, the bank would also build four of

442-604: The Ancient Americas collection includes roughly 2,000 objects from more than 40 cultures, spanning more than 4,500 years. The collection includes body adornments, tools, ceramic vessels, sculpture, textiles, and metal ornaments. There are about 2,230 objects in the Mint's collection of Contemporary Art. These include the Bearden collection and other works on paper, contemporary sculpture, and photography from circa 1945 to

476-659: The Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts . It reopened as part of the Mint Museum Uptown in October 2010. The move expanded the collection's gallery space from 10,000 square feet (930 m) to 18,000 square feet (1,700 m) in the new facility. With the help of grants and the Arts & Science Council the Mint Museum's new 145,000-square-foot (13,500 m) location opened on October 1, 2010. Designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates of Boston,

510-647: The Randolph Road building originally served as the home of the first branch of the United States Mint . Designed by noted architect William Strickland , construction of the Federal-style Charlotte Mint building began in 1836 by Perry & Ligon of Raleigh, North Carolina at a cost of $ 29,800.00. It opened July 27, 1837 at its original location at 403 West Trade Street. The facility coined $ 5 million in gold from 1836 to

544-541: The U.S. government downgraded it to an assay office due to a shortage of gold dust. In 1873, the General Assembly of North Carolina petitioned Congress to reopen the mint at Charlotte. This request was denied. The Assay office operated until 1913. From 1917 to 1919, the Charlotte Women's Club met in the building. It also served as a Red Cross station during World War I . In 1931, the building

578-523: The Union. The Confederacy seized the Charlotte Mint along with those at New Orleans and Dahlonega . The Confederate government continued coining operations until October when it became clear it was a futile effort. The mint was then converted into a hospital and military office space for the remainder of the Civil War . Federal troops used the offices for the first few years of Reconstruction . In 1867,

612-647: The United States Treasury began to investigate private coining operations and recognized North Carolina's need for more federal coinage. On March 3, 1835, the United States Congress approved an Act 115 to 60 to establish several branch mints ; the act stated, "...one branch [to be established] at the town of Charlotte , in Mecklenburg County , in the state of North Carolina , for the coinage of gold only...And for

646-461: The building's estimated cost is $ 57 million. Now that it is complete, this building is known as the Mint Museum Uptown . The Uptown location spreads over five floors and houses collections of glass, ceramics, wood and other material from the Mint Museum of Craft + Design. Contemporary Art, American Art and some of the European Art collections from the Randolph Road facility have also moved to

680-564: The city said its contract with Wachovia required "successors" to finish the project, after which the city and county would buy the attractions. The campus was later renamed for Wells Fargo. After large contributions from Duke Energy and the Leon Levine Foundation resulted in the $ 83 million goal being reached, the Wells Fargo Cultural Campus became Levine Center for the Arts. On October 1, 2010,

714-854: The complex was to be the Duke Energy Center . Also part of the complex would be the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, the Bechtler Art Museum, and the Wachovia Condominium Tower. The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art would hold 1200 works of art assembled by Andreas Bechtler and his family during the previous 75 years, in a 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m ) building designed by Mario Botta . The Wachovia Condominium Tower would have had 42 floors and 410,000 square feet (38,000 m ) of space, designed by Rule Joy Trammell + Rubio. Due to

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748-408: The creation of private gold coining operations in the Charlotte area. However, making gold into local money had its own inherent problems, such as accurate weighing and determining fineness. In the spring of 1831, North Carolina merchants and miners petitioned Congress for a branch mint in the Charlotte region to reduce the risk of transporting gold. They received no response until three years later when

782-592: The dismantling and removal of the Strickland building to its present location on donated land on Randolph Road. The museum formally opened to the public on October 22, 1936, as North Carolina's first art museum. The building underwent major expansions in 1967 and 1985. The structure was placed on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission's List of Designated Historic Landmarks in 1976. As part of

816-518: The first $ 5 gold half eagle was struck in Charlotte. Later that year, $ 2½ quarter eagles were minted, and 1849 production started on a small gold dollar . All gold coinage coming from this mint has a "C" mint mark to distinguish it from other sister mints then in operation. The Charlotte Mint issued over $ 5 million in gold coins over the course of nine years – 1849-55, 1857, and 1859. Coins produced in 1850, '52, '55, and '59 are considered rare or very rare. In May 1861, North Carolina seceded from

850-530: The five attractions. Discovery Place, which was planning renovations, was the fifth. The Charlotte city council was to approve an agreement with Wachovia on February 27. On December 1, the car-rental tax increased from 11 to 16 percent, with $ 1.35 million per year expected. Groundbreaking took place September 27, 2007, on the $ 158 million First Street Cultural Campus, also referred to as the Wachovia Cultural Campus . The tallest building of

884-430: The museum's collection of Historic Costume and Fashionable Dress, which approaches fashion as an art form. The Mint Museum of Craft + Design honors the legacy of the Charlotte region's rich craft heritage by collecting artistic craft in glass, metal, fiber, wood, mixed-media, and clay, including jewelry and furniture. With over 2,500 works, its permanent collections "present the creative evolution of studio craft from

918-429: The nation. Its collection of North Carolina pottery comprises some 2,200 objects, dating from the 1700s. The museum's Delhom collection, given to the Mint in 1966, contains 2,000 pieces of historic pottery and porcelain, as well as pre-Columbian pieces that are more than 4,500 years old. Almost 10,000 items of men's, women's, and children's fashions from the early 18th century to present-day haute couture are included in

952-472: The new location, bringing the Mint's arts and craft and fine arts focuses under one roof for the first time. The historic Randolph Road building remains open. Renovations and reinstallation are scheduled to highlight the museum's holdings in Ceramics; Historic Costume and Fashionable Dress; Ancient American Art; Asian Art; Coins & Currency; Decorative Arts; and Spanish Colonial Art. The oldest section of

986-476: The outbreak of the Civil War. In 1931, when Mecklenburg County planned to expand the main post office, located adjacent to the Mint, the building became endangered. Widespread public support for preserving the building on its original site proved futile. When the U.S. Treasury Department stated that it had no objection to anyone moving the building to another site, in 1933, a group of citizens raised $ 950 for

1020-451: The present. The Mint's Decorative Arts collection, considered one of the finest in the country, centers on its holdings in ceramics. Containing more than 12,000 objects from 2000 B.C. to 1950 A.D., the collection includes a wide variety of ancient Chinese ceramics, 18th century European and English wares, American art pottery , and North Carolina pottery. The Mint has the largest and most comprehensive collection of North Carolina pottery in

1054-519: The purpose of purchasing sites, erecting suitable buildings, and completing the necessary combinations of machinery...for the branch at Charlotte, fifty thousand dollars". This Act also authorized mints at Dahlonega, Georgia , and New Orleans, Louisiana , after President Andrew Jackson signed it into law. In November, 1835, Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Treasury, was notified by Samuel MeComb that he had purchased from William Carson and F. L. Smith

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1088-422: The utilitarian objects of the 19th century to the art of today". It also encourages the creation of art, spawns collaborations and dialogue, and serves as a forum for artists, craft theory, aesthetics and technology. The Mint Museum of Craft + Design has been proclaimed as one of the foremost craft museums in the nation. It opened in 1999 following an $ 8.2 million donation to the Mint Museum of Art for purchase of

1122-656: Was located in Charlotte, North Carolina and specialized in gold coinage. Following the first documented discovery of gold in the United States, the country's first gold mine was established in North Carolina at the Reed Gold Mine . As no mints existed in the Charlotte area, miners had to send their gold dust to Philadelphia to be melted and coined. The transportation process was difficult, slow, expensive, and dangerous; frustration with this system led to

1156-474: Was to be demolished to make room for the post office expansion next door. A coalition of private citizens acquired the structure from the U.S. Treasury Department in 1933. They relocated the structure a few miles east of downtown Charlotte, to the historic neighborhood of Eastover on a plot of land donated by E.C. Griffith. In 1936, it was dedicated as the Mint Museum of Art , the first art museum in North Carolina. On display are thousands of items, along with

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