Stop 10 — Crowell-Berryhill Store

Address: 401 West 9th Street Year built: 1897 Style: Victorian Designation: CMHLC historic landmark Current use: Alexander Michael's Restaurant & Tavern (since 1983)

The Crowell-Berryhill Store at 401 West 9th Street is an 1897 Victorian commercial structure. Per Friends of Fourth Ward, it opened as a branch of the Star Mills Grocery Company and operated as a grocery until 1931. It is the only turn-of-the-century grocery-store structure that survives in Uptown Charlotte.

The building is now home to Alexander Michael's Restaurant & Tavern, which has operated in the space since January 1983. The tavern's bar and back bar are made from oak doors salvaged from the Independence Building — Charlotte's first skyscraper, imploded in September 1981 at Trade and Tryon. The neighborhood's commercial memory lives inside this building in a literal material sense: an 1897 grocery structure containing oak from a 1908 downtown skyscraper that came down 74 years after the store opened.

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Source: Friends of Fourth Ward, Self-Walking Tour (2016). Retrieved April 24, 2026. See also Mercury Local's full profile: Alexander Michael's + Crowell-Berryhill Store + Independence Building Oak.