Three Wells Fargo Center is a high rise in

Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ...

. Completed in 2000, the building consists of 32 floors with of office space; it also includes an underground

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, an attached 10-story

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known as the Ratcliffe on the Green, and connects to

Two Wells Fargo Center Two Wells Fargo Center is a high rise in Charlotte, North Carolina. Completed in 1971. It is currently the 14th tallest building in Charlotte. The building consists of 32 floors, an atrium, plaza, seven-story parking garage, and is connected to ...

via skybridge, as part of the

Overstreet Mall The Overstreet Mall is a series of pedestrian bridges in Uptown Charlotte. Proposed in 1971 and completed around 1977, the design was based on the design of the Milan Galleria and the Montreal Place Ville-Maria. The mall has about of walkways an ...

History

One Wells Fargo Center, Three Wells Fargo Center

Prior to the

First Union-Wachovia merger Wachovia was a diversified financial services company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before its acquisition by Wells Fargo and Company in 2008, Wachovia was the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States, based on total asse ...

, this building was called Three First Union Center. In December 2010, as a result of

Wells Fargo Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company with corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California; operational headquarters in Manhattan; and managerial offices throughout the United States and intern ...

's 2008 purchase of Wachovia, the building was renamed from Three Wachovia Center to Three Wells Fargo Center.

Museum

A branch of the

Wells Fargo History Museum The Wells Fargo History Museum is a museum operated by Wells Fargo in its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California that features exhibits about the History of Wells Fargo. It includes original stagecoaches, photographs, gold nuggets ...

was located in the building, until all but one of the bank's thirteen museums were closed to align with corporate strategy. The museum's exhibits included gold mining in North Carolina, a 19th-century

stagecoach A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are draw ...

, and a model of an 1889 Wachovia Bank branch from Winston-Salem.

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