1627 Patton Avenue

Constructed 1956 – 57 for Stanley Fisher, clerk at the U.S. Post Office, and his wife Clotelle, a high school teacher. The builder was Clotelle’s father Mangie McQueen, perhaps the city’s most active African American contractor, who built many dwellings in McCrorey Heights.

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Stanley Coolidge Fisher ( _____ – 2004) grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. He won basketball and football scholarships to Fayetteville State College in North Carolina, served in World War II, and went on to graduate from Hampton Institute in Virginia in 1953.  Noted his funeral program:

“A very interesting part of his life was his work history which started at age 11 after the death of his mother — when he declared his independence. Before entering college he worked as a horse groomer and trainer, waiter and traveled the Great Lakes as an attendant on passenger cruise ship lines. Later in life he was employed as a carpenter, painter, postal clerk, insurance agent, real estate salesman, housing inspector for the City of Charlotte, and as a bus driver for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.”

When the couple moved into this house in 1957, the city directory listed wife Clotelle Fisher as a teacher at Second Ward High School. Among the courses she taught was Drivers Education, becoming one of the first women in that role in 1958. After Second Ward’s demolition during urban renewal, Mrs. Fisher taught at West Charlotte High and later at Garinger High, which listed her impressive credentials: “Hampton Institute, Trade Diploma; Barber Scotia College, B.S.; Penn State University, M.Ed. in Occupational Economics.”  She and Stanley raised three daughters in this house; daughter Fayon Thompson taught 35 years in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, then became a librarian and substitute teacher at Providence Day School. Clotelle Fisher, age 86, still resided in this house in 2017.