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    • Harriss House

    • Harriss House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for Andrew Howell Harriss (1872-1956), physician and surgeon; and wife, Mary Bolles (1875-1967), native of Southport, NC. Dr. Harriss served in the Spanish American and First World Wars. Two-story porch added in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Robert R. Bellamy Building

    • Robert R. Bellamy Building
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    • Commercial structure built as rental property for Robert R. Bellamy (1861-1926), owner of wholesale drug business and officer of Delgado Cotton Mills. Originally constructed as a boot and shoe store; later occupied by clothing stores and jewelers....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Smith-Willoughby House

    • Smith-Willoughby House
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    • Shingle style house built for Lissette Smith (1853-1930), widow of Andrew T. Smith (1849-1907). Conveyed in 1922 to Julius E. Willoughby (1871-1944), Chief Engineer of Roadway, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Remained in family until 1960.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Southern Express Building

    • Southern Express Building
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    • Renaissance style building constructed for Colonel Kenneth M. Murchison (1831-1904), businessman and banker, who leased it to the Southern Express Company, a railway delivery service. Building sold in 1913 to Wilmington Star Company, newspaper...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Curtis-Foster House

    • Curtis-Foster House
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    • Italianate style house built for George T. Curtis (1823-1870), native of Virginia, engineer; and wife, Melvina Ann Medley (1829-1889). Purchased in 1890 by Flavel Wright Foster (1842-1902), native of Bradford County, PA, Union Army veteran, county...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Michael Hooper House

    • Michael Hooper House
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    • House built for Michael Hooper (1830-1877), lamplighter and drayman; and wife, Julia A. (1841-1906). He was founder of Wilmington's Emancipation Day Celebration in 1874. The Structure was altered to Neoclassical Revival style in c. 1902 when...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Chadbourn House

    • Chadbourn House
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    • Built by James H. Chadbourn for his daughter, Frances Chadbourn, who married Dr. Jack Stanley, dentist. Robert Ruark (1915-1965), newspaper journalist and novelist, spent part of his childhood here.
    • Port City Architecture
    • North Front Street - 200 block.

    • North Front Street - 200 block.

    • N. Front Street, Murchison, Chestnut Street

    • Chestnut Street - 100 block - north side The main buildings are (from left) the first floor of the Murchison Building, (built 1913/1914); the Murchison National Bank-Acme Building (1902) and the tall building to the left, the Cape Fear Hotel...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Rankin & Martin Warehouse

    • Rankin & Martin Warehouse
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    • Vernacular style warehouse built for Rankin & Martin, naval stores merchants. Purchased in 1889 by Burr & Bailey Ironworks. Acquired in 1902 by Wilmington Towing & Construction Company and occupied by W.B. Thorpe & Company, dealers in coal, wood...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Gillette House

    • Gillette House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style bungalow, built for George William Gillette (1888-1971); and wife, Pearl Marine (1891-1945), both natives of Marine, Onslow County. Gillettewas the electrical engineer with Tide Water Power Co., World War I and World War...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Everett-Bissinger House

    • Everett-Bissinger House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for Ann Thomson Everett (1819-1895), wife of Amariah B. Everett (1811-1857), planter, natives of Onslow County. Renovated to Italianate style durig ownership of son, John Alfred Everett (1839-1915), Confederate...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Harlee Bellamy

    • Dr. Harlee Bellamy

    • Bellamy family, physicians

    • Dr. Robert Harllee Bellamy, son of Marsden and Harriet Harllee Bellamy, was born February 21, 1880 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married Miss Lucy Williams Bridgers in 1912. His grandfather, John Dillard Bellamy, was also a Physician. He...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Edward Jenner Wood

    • Dr. Edward Jenner Wood

    • Wood family, physicians, medicine

    • Dr. Edward Jenner Wood, son of Thomas Fanning and Margaret Adelia Fuller Wood was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He received his M.D. from The University of Pennsylvania in 1902 and was a General Practioner. Notable achievements: N.C. Board of...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Pembroke Park

    • Pembroke Park

    • Pembroke Park, Pembroke Jones, Park, Landfall

    • Pembroke Jones’ Lodge and Garden with gazebo (Now the site of Landfall). Pembroke Jones (1858-1919), a native of Wilmington, spent much of his time in New York and Newport, RI, but he always returned to the city of his birth. In 1902, he...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Pembroke Park.

    • Pembroke Park.

    • Pembroke Park, Pembroke Jones, Park, Landfall

    • Photograph taken from the sound side of the lodge (villa). Jones hosted many oyster roasts here. Pembroke Jones’ Lodge and Garden with gazebo (Now the site of Landfall). Pembroke Jones (1858-1919), a native of Wilmington, spent much of his time...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • North Front Street, 200 block, east side.

    • North Front Street, 200 block, east side.

    • N. Front Street, Chestnut Street, Murchison-Acme Building

    • At right on the corner of Front and Chestnut streets is the Murchison National Bank - Acme Building. The bank organized in March 1899, moved into the structure in 1902. Charles McMillen was the architect, with John H. Brunjes, the builder....
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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