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    • Sampson-Johnson House

    • Sampson-Johnson House
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    • Greek Revival style house built by James D. Sampson (1801-1861), free black carpenter. Purchased in 1872 by Fannie Starr (1833-1911), wife of Alexander Johnson (1825-1890), native of Lumberton, turpentine distiller. Acquired by daughter, Miss...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Fennell-Croom House

    • Fennell-Croom House
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    • Built by former Confederate Army Captain, Owen J. Fennell (1832-1910) as his residence. He was a local merchant and Justice of the Peace. Purchased by M.F. Croom in 1892 and remodeled. Remained in family until 1931.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Tileston School

    • Tileston School
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    • The original Italianate style center section was financed by philanthropist Mary Tileston Hemenway (1820-1894) and designed by John A. Fox, both of Boston, MA; James Walker, local supervising architect; Strausz & Rice of Wilmington, builders....
    • Port City Architecture
    • William A. French House

    • William A. French House
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    • William A. French (1835-1907), a boot and shoe merchant, lived on this site. On May 10, 1871, fire destroyed the original structure. In November 1871, Mr. French completed the present structure; the plans drawn by Alex Strausz. The property...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Kahnweiler-Duls House

    • Kahnweiler-Duls House
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    • Italianate style house built as investment for David Kahnweiler (1827-1899), dry goods merchant and inventor of cotton seed huller; and wife, Mina (b. 1840), natives of Bavaria. After successive owners it was purchased in 1904 as rental property by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • King-Meares House

    • King-Meares House
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    • Italianate style house built in 1872 by Charles H. King (1849-1909), partner in naval stores concern of Robinson & King; and wife, Mary J. Purchased in 1895 by Judge Oliver P. Meares (1828-1906); and wife, Ann Eliza Wright (1828-1900); remained in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Manning-Toon House

    • Manning-Toon House
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    • Built by Edward W. Manning, Commander of Steamer General Howard, as his residence. In 1872 sold for residence to Benjamin J. Cobb, M.D., who had office in separate building in northwest corner of front yard. Purchased in 1880 by William Pinckney...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Temple of Israel

    • Temple of Israel
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    • Moorish Revival style synagogue built for German Jewish Reform congregation that was organized in 1872. it is the oldest synagogue in North Carolina and one of the few in the United States still housed in its original nineteenth century building.
    • Port City Architecture
    • City Hall - Thalian Hall

    • City Hall - Thalian Hall
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    • Italianate and Classical Revival style city hall and theater built for the citizens of Wilmington, the largest town in North Carolina at the time. One of the nations few surviving antebellum buildings constructed to serve as both governmental and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Grant-Stevenson House

    • Grant-Stevenson House
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    • North wing, c. 1875, built for Ruben Grant (1810-1880), Methodist minister; and wife, Sarah Ann Dawson (1823-1888). South wing, c. 1872, built for James C. Stevenson (1847-1907), wholesale grocer; and wife, Elizabeth J. Smith (1850-1919). Son,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Frank Russell

    • Dr. Frank Russell

    • Russell family, physicians, Havens family

    • Dr. Frank Havens Russell (1872-1915), son of Thomas and Fanny B. Havens Russell, was born in Robeson County, North Carolina, May 6th, 1872. He married Roberta Lilly, October 31st, 1894. He had a grandson, Frank B. Reynolds, who was also a Physician...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. John G. Murphy, E.E.N. & T

    • Dr. John G. Murphy, E.E.N. & T

    • Murphy family, physicians, hospitals, James Walker Memorial Hospital

    • Dr. John Gerald Murphy (1872-1882), was born September 18th, 1872. He was educated at University of North Carolina (1901) and The University of Louisville, where he received his M.D. in 1903. He practiced medicine from 1904-1932. Notable...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Andrew Harriss

    • Dr. Andrew Harriss

    • Harriss family, physicians, Obstetricians, Oakdale Cemetery

    • Dr. Andrew Howell Harriss, son of George Harriss and Julia Ophelia Sanders Harriss, was born March 7th, 1872 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married Miss Mary Montgomery Wilcox Bolles October 14th, 1896. His grandfather, William James Harris was...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Bellevue Cemetery.

    • Bellevue Cemetery.

    • Bellevue Cemetery, Cemeteries, Graves

    • The cemetery, incorporated in 1872, is located on Princess Place Drive (formerly the Old New Bern Road), west of Burnt Mill Creek, and contains about fifteen acres. The date of the first burial is unknown, but by April of 1878, there appears...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Oakdale Cemetery - Confederate Monument.

    • Oakdale Cemetery - Confederate Monument.

    • Oakdale Cemetery, Cemeteries, Confederate Monument

    • This monument marks the graves of over four hundred unknown Confederate Soldiers. The bronze soldier on a large pedestal was designed by William Randolph O'Donovan, sculptor, and executed by Maurice J. Power at his National Art Foundry in New York....
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Tillie in front of Tileston School

    • Tillie in front of Tileston School

    • Tileston School, Schools, S. Fourth Street, Ann Street

    • Tillie, a Bellamy family slave, later lived over the old kitchen at the Burgwin-Wright House. St. Mary's Catholic Pro-Cathedral is in the background. The original school building in the middle of the block was constructed in 1871-1872 with funds...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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