The Dunhill Hotel

Architect Louis Asbury Sr. designed the 10-story Mayfair Manor for an apartment-hotel use. The building opened in 1929 at 237 North Tryon Street in what was then an emerging commercial spine of Uptown Charlotte. The Mayfair operated through the Depression and the post-war period and was a fixture of the North Tryon district through the mid-twentieth century.

By 1981 the building had closed. It sat abandoned for several years. Dunhill Development acquired the property and began a substantial 1988 renovation to convert it into a boutique hotel. During that renovation, an employee discovered human skeletal remains in the elevator shaft. CMPD opened a case; the remains sat in storage as a cold case for more than three decades.

In 2022 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police submitted a bone sample for advanced DNA testing. A forensic anthropologist recovered DNA from the sample, and a forensic genealogist used direct-to-consumer DNA databases to construct a family tree. In May 2023 the remains were positively identified as Oliver 'Doc' Mundy, born in 1923 — a WWII veteran from Mooresville known to have been living on the streets of Charlotte at the time of his disappearance. CMPD coverage by WCNC and WBTV and Queen City Nerve's reporting describe the case as one of three Charlotte cold cases identified during the same period using forensic genetic genealogy.

The Dunhill is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a member of Historic Hotels of America. It operates today as a 60-room boutique property with an in-house restaurant and bar.