A building famed in US civil rights history is being demolished in North Carolina today
The historic Coffee Cup Solda Grill building in uptown is being demolished today. Opened in 1946, the Coffee Cup was the first in Charlotte where whites and blacks dined together before desegregation.
Beazer Homes USA of Atlanta applied for a permit to demolish the building in June 2008. But the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmark Commission voted to recognize the vacant restaurant as a historic landmark, requiring Beazer to wait one year before tearing it down.
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