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    • J.W. Murchison House

    • J.W. Murchison House
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    • French eclectic style house built for Joel Williams Murchison (1853-1926), founder of J. W. Murchison Co., wholesale hardware; and wife, Loulie Hay Atkinson (1860-1922). Front and south porches removed c.1933 and entry added. House remains in the...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Skinner House, Captain

    • Skinner House, Captain
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    • Queen Anne style house built for Emily J. Erambert Skinner (1835-1897), wife of Samuel Wallace Skinner (1837-1907), ship builder and partner in Evans & Skinner Marine Railway. Purchased in 1929 by Harriss Bellamy Stone (1901-1956), owner of Marine...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Allen-Woodward House

    • Allen-Woodward House
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    • Built by Jacob S. Allen (1829-1895), native of Raleigh, contractor and builder. Purchased in 1891 by Hector McLean Green (1849-1925), native of Lillington, NC, timber inspector, Postmaster, and realtor; and wife, Ida Deems Alderman (1866-1926)....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Forshee-Sprunt House

    • Forshee-Sprunt House
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    • Italianate style house built for James M. Forshee, native of Philadelphia and partner in Kenan & Forshee, commission merchants; and wife, Sallie M. Extensively remodeled in 1920 by J. Laurence Sprunt (1866 - 1973), cotton broker; and wife, Annie...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Orton Billard & Pool Rooms

    • Orton Billard & Pool Rooms
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    • Basement is the only surviving section of Orton Hotel which was built in 1886 for Col. Kenneth Murchison (1831-1906). Billiard and pool rooms, steam laundry, bakery, and bar room installed during the 1888 enlargement by W. A. Bryan, proprietor....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Latimer-Waddell House

    • Latimer-Waddell House
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    • Italianate style house built for William Latimer (1852-1923), industrialist. In 1886 deeded to Ellen Savage (1842-1898), second wife of Alfred Moore Waddell (1834-1912), U. S. Congressman, Mayor of Wilmington, orator and historian. Purchased in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Benton House

    • Benton House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for William Fulton Benton (b.1884), meat cutter and grocer; and wife, Winnie S. (b. 1886). Owned by Weathers family from 1924 to 1979.
    • Port City Architecture
    • William B. McKoy House

    • William B. McKoy House
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    • Stick style house built as a residence for W.B. McKoy, (1852-1928), attorney and Past Grand Master of Masons of NC; and wife, Katherine Bacon (1858-1949). Home of daughter Elizabeth Francenia McKoy, (1887-1984), local historian, researcher, and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Jewett-Shepard House

    • Jewett-Shepard House
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    • Residence of Jewett Family in 1883. Property acquired in 1886 by Susan Lane Jewett (1851-1917), naval stores inspector. Purchased in 1899 by Joseph C. Shepard, Jr. (1867-1948), druggist and founder of Shepard Chemical Works, Inc., and his wife...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Louis J. Poisson House

    • Louis J. Poisson House
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    • Late Italianate style house built for Louis J. Poisson (1860-1891), real estate broker; and wife, Mary Allen (1866-1960), native of Brockville, Ontario, Canada. From 1905 to 1916, the home of Brooke Gwathmey Empie, attorney, state senator and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Cumming-Duls House

    • Cumming-Duls House
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    • Italianate style house built for Preston Cumming (1843-1914), commission merchant; and wife, Virginia Lilly (1848-1892). Purchased in 1886 by Jacob W. Dulls (1852-1915), retail grocer; and wife, Katherine Gieschen (1863-1911), both natives of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Grace Methodist Church, 4th and Grace Streets

    • Grace Methodist Church, 4th and Grace Streets

    • churches, Methodist Churches, Grace United Methodist Church, Front St., Grace St.

    • Showing the bell tower of Grace Methodist Church at 4th and Grace Sts. Originally started as Front Street Methodist Church in 1796. After a horrible fire in 1886, the church moved to what is now 4th and Grace. The church burned again on March 21,...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Calvary Baptist Church

    • Calvary Baptist Church

    • churches, Baptist churches, Calvary Baptist Church

    • Calvary Baptist Church was founded in 1886 and built on the SE corner of 4th and Brunswick Streets in 1917. It mainly served the population that lived on the North side of the city. In 1955, the church moved to the suburbs on North 23rd St.
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. J. B. Sidbury, Sr.?

    • Dr. J. B. Sidbury, Sr.?

    • Sidbury family, Daniel family, physicians, Pediatricians, Babies Hospital

    • Dr. James Buren Sidbury, Sr., (1886-7967), son of Verlinza and Fannie Willims Sidbury, was born March 2nd, 1886 in Holly Ridge, North Carolina. He married Miss Willie Daniel and they had a son, James Buren Sidbury, Jr. and daughter, Rowena Sidbury...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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