Luther Snyder House
The Luther Snyder House is located in the heart of the Myers Park neighborhood just south of Uptown Charlotte. Designed by Martin Boyer, the residential structure is an example of Colonial Revival architecture. Originally designed as a single family residency, the complex is now a condominium project for Queens University.
Queens University was founded in 1857 originally as a female-only college called Charlotte Female Institute located at College and 9th Street. Queens College was moved to the Myers Park location in 1912, and over time expanded into the Queens University at Charlotte that exists today. The Luther Snyder building now resides on the most eastern corner of Queens University's campus, at the intersection of Selwyn and Queens. The building was erected in the early 1930s and it is unknown when the switch was made from a family residency to a dorm-condo project on the campus.(1) The layout of the exterior remains the same, as shown from both photographs. The top photograph was taken just after it was constructed, and the bottom taken in 2012.
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1. "History of Queens" Queens University of Charlotte: http://www.queens.edu/