Three Wells Fargo Center is a high rise in
Charlotte, North Carolina
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Completed in 2000, the building consists of 32 floors with of office space; it also includes an underground
parking garage
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, an attached 10-story
low-rise
A low-rise is a building that is only a few stories tall or any building that is shorter than a high-rise, though others include the classification of mid-rise.
Definition
Emporis defines a low-rise as "an enclosed structure below 35 metres 15 ...
known as the Ratcliffe on the Green, and connects to
Two Wells Fargo Center
Two Wells Fargo Center is a high rise in Charlotte, North Carolina. Completed in 1971. It is currently the 14th tallest building in Charlotte. The building consists of 32 floors, an atrium, plaza, seven-story parking garage, and is connected t ...
via
skybridge, as part of the
Overstreet Mall
The Overstreet Mall is a series of pedestrian bridges in Uptown Charlotte. Proposed in 1971 and completed around 1977, the design was based on the design of the Milan Galleria and the Montreal Place Ville-Marie. The mall has about of walkways ...
.
History
Prior to the
First Union-Wachovia merger, this building was called Three First Union Center. In December 2010, as a result of
Wells Fargo
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's 2008 purchase of Wachovia, the building was renamed from Three Wachovia Center to Three Wells Fargo Center.
Museum
A branch of the
Wells Fargo History Museum was located in the building, until all but one of the bank's thirteen museums were closed to align with corporate strategy. The museum's exhibits included gold mining in North Carolina, a 19th-century
stagecoach
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, and a model of an 1889 Wachovia Bank branch from Winston-Salem. In 2022, the facility the museum was housed at was donated to the
Levine Museum of the New South
The Levine Museum of the New South, is a history museum located in Charlotte, North Carolina whose exhibits explore issues relevant to the history of the greater Charlotte metro area and spark curiosity about our world today. Founded in 199 ...
.
See also
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List of tallest buildings in Charlotte
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List of tallest buildings in North Carolina
This list of tallest buildings in North Carolina ranks skyscrapers in the United States of America, U.S. state of North Carolina by height. The tallest building in North Carolina is the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, which contain ...
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Two Wells Fargo Center
Two Wells Fargo Center is a high rise in Charlotte, North Carolina. Completed in 1971. It is currently the 14th tallest building in Charlotte. The building consists of 32 floors, an atrium, plaza, seven-story parking garage, and is connected t ...
References
External links
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Skyscraperpage
Skyscraper office buildings in Charlotte, North Carolina
Office buildings completed in 2000
Wells Fargo buildings
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