CHARLOTTE ACADEMY BUILDINGS, 1824.
CHARLOTTE MALE AND FEMALE ACADEMIES.

The undersigned are authorized to contract for building two Academies in Charlotte, of brick, fifty feet long by thirty feet wide, or thereabouts ; two stories high, on a stone foundation, with two partition walls in each, and basement story for cellar, etc. under the female department. Doors and windows proportioned in size and number to the size of the building.

Proposals will be received by either of the subscribers, until the first of March next, for the mason and carpenter's work separately, but all to go on at the same time. Painting and plastering will be distinct jobs, to be contracted for hereafter. Contractors must furnish all the materials, except the brick.
J. Irwin,
David R. Dunlap,
William Davidson
February 2, 1824

—Western Carolinian, February 10, 1824.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)