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Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture, a museum in North Carolina
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Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture, a museum in North Carolina
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Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture, a museum in North Carolina
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Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture, a museum in North Carolina
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Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture is a museum in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 221 m. Crowders Mountain stands 458 m to the west, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is The Green, a park 0.1 miles away. Uwharrie Scenic Road passes 20 miles off. 11 named summits stand within 25 miles.

About

The story

The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, formerly known as the Afro-American Cultural Center, is in Charlotte, North Carolina and named for Harvey Gantt, the city's first African-American mayor and the first African-American student at Clemson University. The 46,500 sq ft, four-story center was designed by Freelon Group Architects at a cost of $18.6 million — and was dedicated in October 2009 as part of what is now the Levine Center for the Arts.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 1975.

Wikidata Q16983412, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Height
29 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates35.22307, -80.84785
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
Attractions
  • Coal car: 1.2 mi
  • Gainseville Midland: 2.1 mi
  • Graffiti Park: 2.2 mi
  • Historic Rosedale: 3.3 mi
  • Abandoned Charlotte Delivery Service Truck and Car: 4.7 mi
Historic sites: 56
Museums: 33
Gardens: 28
  • Courtyard: 0.5 mi
  • Baxter Steet Park Community Garden: 0.8 mi
  • Wilmore Community Garden: 1.2 mi
  • McGill Rose Garden: 1.2 mi
  • Sustainability Village Community Garden: 1.4 mi
Nature reserves: 28
  • Chantilly Ecological Sanctuary: 2.7 mi
  • Evergreen Nature Preserve: 4.3 mi
  • Ribbonwalk Nature Preserve: 5.1 mi
  • Whitehall Nature Preserve: 7.7 mi
  • Berryhill Nature Preserve: 8.0 mi
Peaks: 11
Beaches: 5
  • South Point Beach: 10.3 mi
  • Sailing Beach: 13.9 mi
  • Ramsay Creek Park Beach: 16.9 mi
  • SHOAL: 19.8 mi
  • SHOAL: 20.6 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • North Carolina Welcome Center: 8.0 mi
  • South Carolina Welcome Center: 11.3 mi
  • I-85 Cabarrus County Rest Area: 21.3 mi
  • I-85 Cabarrus County Rest Area: 21.6 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Little Long Creek Falls: 22.3 mi
  • Long Creek Falls: 22.5 mi
  • High Shoals: 23.3 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Carowinds Grove: 9.7 mi
Springs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Crowders MountainW 272°458 m24.2 mi
Spencer MountainWNW 289°375 m15.9 mi
Henry KnobWSW 255°344 m24.9 mi
Jackson KnobW 266°328 m18.3 mi
Reese MountainNW 314°325 m20.6 mi
Nanny MountainSW 234°299 m17.7 mi
Berry MountainW 271°281 m13.2 mi
Gamble HillW 275°263 m24.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2819:0219:35
June solstice06:1020:0420:42
September equinox07:1218:4819:22
December solstice07:2916:3617:16

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424653616977807973625145
Precip in3.53.14.03.83.44.03.74.43.73.23.33.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Charlotte Douglas AP, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/131139722

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