Two Wells Fargo Center

Two Wells Fargo Center is a 433ft skyscraper in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was completed in 1971 and has 32 floors. It surpassed the Winston Tower in Winston-Salem as the tallest building in North Carolina, and in 1974 was passed by Bank of America Plaza. It is currently the 9th tallest building in Charlotte. In May 2006, it was repainted from beige to gray to complement the renovated color scheme at the neighboring Wachovia Main.When completed, this building was called Jefferson First Union Tower. Later, it was called First Union Plaza. First Union still owned the 12-story building on Tryon Street that Union National Bank (later First Union) built as a 9-story headquarters in 1954. In 1985, First Union bought the Masonic Temple and several other buildings, giving the bank the entire block. Later in the decade, the bank demolished the buildings that it bought but saved the temple façade. A park went on the site. When First Union employees began moving into the new headquarters in February 1988, that building was called One First Union Center. The name Two First Union Center referred to the 32-story tower, while the term "Two First Union complex" also included the shorter building, which was known for its Charlotte Hornets murals. The Tryon Street site was considered in the late 1990s for a new First Union building that would have reached 70 to 80 stories. The proposed name was Four First Union. After the First Union-Wachovia Merger the complex was called Two Wachovia Center.