The seat of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina was built in two stages. The 1917 section, designed by James A. Wetmore, shared the block with a building that once housed the first branch of the U. S. Mint. By the time the second section of the federal courthouse was completed in 1934, the old United States Mint building had been demolished, and courthouse construction overtook part of the demolished building's site. The building's main access was turned 90 degrees so that the facade would face West Trade Street. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is Neoclassical Revival style. At the corner stands an obelisk monument to a North Carolinian killed at San Juan on July 1, 1898. The fallen young lieutenant is memorialized by the words "amongst a grove the very straightest plant." Today the building is known as the Charles R. Jonas Federal Building.
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