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    • Munds Drug Store

    • Munds Drug Store
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    • Commercial building constructed as rental property for Solomon (1832-1904), Samuel (1837-1903) and Marcus (1843-1887) Bear, natives of Bavaria, Germany, and dry goods merchants. Remained in Bear family until 1985. James Dickinson Munds (1855-1893)...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Hanby House & Store

    • Hanby House & Store
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    • Italianate style house and grocery store built for Joseph H. Hanby (1843-1905), grocer, native of Virginia; and wife, Adrienne K. Wilson (1848-1913). One of the citys few remaining ""corner grocery store"" buildings, it served the neighborhood from...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Honnet House

    • Honnet House
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    • Italianate style house built on Sunset Hill by George Honnet (1843-1913), native of Baltimore, jeweler and watchmaker; and wife, Marie Otterbourg (1848-1913). Colossal Neoclassical portico added in 1914 by son, George (1880-1962), a jeweler. House...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Hansen House

    • Hansen House
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    • Italianate style house, with Steamboat Gothic decoration, built for Ludvig Hansen (1850-1921), native of Denmark; and wife, Augusta G. (1860-1918). Hansen was a ship chandler and President of Spiritine Chemical Co. Saved for preservation by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Henry Latimer House

    • Henry Latimer House
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    • Italianate style dwelling built for Henry G. Latimer (1845-1929); and wife, Carrie. Mr. Latimer was a merchant and co-founder of Acme Manufacturing Company. House owned by Mary Hargrave Kenan (1842-1916) and heirs from 1903-1935.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Maunder House

    • Maunder House
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    • Italianate style house built for John Maunder (1825-1897), native of New York, marble yard owner, city alderman; and wife, Martha Orrell (1837-1927). Purchased in 1918 by Robert Stedman McKeithan (1884-1955), fertilizer salesman; and wife Luola...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Freight Warehouse & Office

    • Freight Warehouse & Office
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    • Built for the Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta Railroad; acquired through merger by the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad and later the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, who added the three-story freight office in 1900. Saved for preservation by Historic...
    • Port City Architecture
    • 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
    • Hinton-Nixon House

    • Hinton-Nixon House
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    • Dutch Colonial Revival style house built for Edgar Latimer Hinton (1868-1936), businessman and owner of the Seashore Hotel at Wrightsville Beach; and wife, Mamie E. Lively (b. 1882), native of Birmingham, AL. From 1941 to 1991 owned by Nixon...
    • Port City Architecture
    • deRosset House

    • deRosset House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for Armand John deRosset (1808-1897), physician and merchant; and wife, Eliza Jane Lord (1812-1876). They added the northeast wing in 1854 and the Italianate cornice and conservatory in 1874. Purchased in 1882 by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Cook-Matthews House

    • Cook-Matthews House
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    • Queen Anne style cottage built by Abraham B. Cook (1839-1908), carpenter, who constructed several buildings in the neighborhood; and wife Eliza A. (1840-1912), used as their residence. In 1913, purchased by daughter Allena C. Matthews (1880-1968);...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Capt. Joseph Price House

    • Capt. Joseph Price House
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    • Late Greek Revival style house built for Joseph W. Price (1835-1895), native of Duplin County; and wife, Lassie Jones (1846-1934). He served in the Pacific as a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. During the Civil War he commanded the...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Cassidey-Harper House

    • Cassidey-Harper House
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    • Built as family residence by James Cassidey (1792-1866), native of Salisbury, MA, who with his sons operated an extensive shipyard and marine railway at river below house. Confederate ironclad RALEIGH was constructed there. His daughter, Anne E....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. W. C. Mebane

    • Dr. W. C. Mebane

    • Mebane family, physicians

    • Dr. William Carter Mebane, Sr.? was born November 1st, 1882 to parents Benjamin Watkins and Bettie Galloway Carter Mebane. He married Miss Susan Mott and they had a son, William Carter Mebane, Jr. who also received his M.D., (General Practicioner...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Cape Fear River - Steamer, Wilmington.

    • Cape Fear River - Steamer, Wilmington.

    • Cape Fear River, Steamer, Wilmington

    • The legendary steamer, Wilmington, was owned by John W. Harper (1856-1917), who was also her captain. Capt. Harper began taking passengers down the Cape Fear River from Wilmington to Southport about 1887. He owned two boats - the Passport and the...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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