Published in Charlotte Home & Garden
Summer 2009
Katharine Hidell Thomas’s midcentury modern ranch breaks the traditional Myers Park mold.
Purchasing a midcentury modern ranch in Myers Park, a neighborhood notable for its stately traditional homes, seemed only natural to Katharine Hidell Thomas, co-owner of the Hidell Brooks Gallery in South End. After all, the thirty-seven-year-old Charlottean grew up in a modern house on Museum Drive, and her grandparents (whom Thomas calls “avant-garde”) built a very contemporary single-story home in the small town of Grover, North Carolina. “The town had never seen anything like it,” laughs Thomas. “Their house had great floor-to-ceiling windows. I loved that you could stand in the kitchen and see the view outside the front and back.”
