36.005786, -78.911547
Cross Street
Year built
1910-1915
Architects/Designers
Architectural style
Construction type
National Register
Neighborhood
Use
Building Type

Flowers-Spears House, 1980
Per the historic inventory, WW Flowers, president of theĀ Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company commissioned well-known Charlotte architecture firm CC Hook to design the house at 501 Watts St. for his father, George Washington Flowers in the early 1910s.

Rear of the Flowers-Spears House, 06.19.57
The contractor was John T. Salmon, who lived nearby at 512 Watts. St. Flowers evidently attached stipulations to the deed that the house always serve as a family gathering place.
By the 1970s, it was occupied by Estelle Flowers Spears, WW Flowers' sister. It remains in the Spears family.

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