Mill worker cottages and a converted brick cotton mill sit beside painted gallery storefronts on North Davidson Street.
What NoDa looks like
North Davidson Street is the commercial spine, painted one storey storefronts with awnings and A-frame signs set out on the sidewalk. stands at the north end, a red brick cotton mill from 1903 to 1904 with a square tower at the corner. Its floors now hold apartments, Heist Brewery and shops at street level.
The worker cottages sit on the side streets off Davidson. They are one storey and gable fronted, with full width porches on small lots. is a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmark on the same strip. is a landmark building from about 1912, a few doors down.
is a cafe, gallery and music venue where Davidson meets 36th Street. The , a renovated 1940s movie house, is NoDa's main stage a block over on 36th. A LYNX Blue Line stop serves the corridor at the same cross street.
Jack Brown's Beer & Burger Joint sits on the main strip behind its own awning. , a cash only burger stand open since 1973, is where Davidson curves into Brevard Street.
Shot in NoDa
For the Peacock film Please Don't Destroy, the cast dance on roller skates down North Davidson Street. Brooks' Sandwich House, where Davidson curves into Brevard Street, closed for a separate day of the same shoot.
Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, 2023
North Davidson Street
Boudreaux's Louisiana Kitchen and The Blind Pig, a block over on 36th Street, are visible behind the cast as they skate down North Davidson Street. The production filmed on North Davidson Street over the summer of 2022.
Cabbagetown's mill village pairs the same two things, a converted brick cotton mill and small frame worker houses built as the mill expanded. The houses are brightly painted shotgun and cottage cabins on tiny lots, and the mill itself became lofts with its exposed brick and heavy timber columns kept in place. Cabbagetown's shotgun houses are one room wide, narrower than NoDa's cottages, so keep frames tight on a porch or a roofline rather than the full house front. Try searching brightly painted shotgun houses now.
Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina
Loray Mill's five storey brick mill and its surrounding grid of one and a half storey frame worker cottages make a bigger version of the same mill and village pairing, the whole group dating from the 1900s and 1910s. The cottages keep small porches, gable roofs and weatherboard siding close to Highland Park's own worker houses. Loray's mill rises five storeys against Highland Park's one or two, so a wide shot gives the difference away. Favor the cottages, or a tight crop of the mill. Try searching frame worker cottages now.
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