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    • 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
    • Major James Reilly House

    • Major James Reilly House
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    • Greek Revival style house built as investment property for William A. Wright (1807-1878), lawyer. Additions made in 1850 when purchased by Alexander McLennan (1820-1856), store clerk and native of Montgomery County. From 1874 to 1883 residence of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Brockett-Barker-Bell House

    • Brockett-Barker-Bell House
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    • Cottage built for James F. Brockett, grocer and watchmaker; and wife, Elizabeth Cruse. E. Gerry Barker, shipbroker, enlarged and remodeled the house in Queen Anne style, c. 1888. Owned by Charles F. Bell family from 1897 to 1982.
    • Port City Architecture
    • St. Andrews Presbyterian Church

    • St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
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    • Late Gothic Revival style church built for St. Andrews Presbyterian congregation. Sunday School annex (1910-1911) given by William H. Sprunt (1857-1939). In 1944, congregation merged with Church of the Covenant at Fifteenth and Market streets....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Central Baptist Church

    • Central Baptist Church
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    • Congregation formed in 1883 under the leadership of the Rev. L.T. Christmas who raised the funds to erect this building five years later. Much of the construction work was done by church members. It is the oldest African-American Baptist church...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Chadwick House

    • Chadwick House
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    • Italianate style house built during ownership of Susan Hawes Redding (1820-1902), seamstress; and son, Charles Hawes (1837-1893). Rear addition and modifications made by David N. Chadwick (1856-1914), saloon keeper.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Yopp-Goodman House

    • Yopp-Goodman House
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    • Italianate style house built for William John Yopp (1824-1888), Wilmington & Weldon Railroad freight agent; and wife; Jane Warren (1834-1868). Rear addition, c. 1870. Purchased in 1888 by William (1832-1911) and Bernhardt (1849-1913) Goodman,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bowden House

    • Bowden House
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    • Family Residence of Lemuel Hanry Bowden (1825-1891), native of New Hanover County, lumber inspector and city alderman. Title was transferred (1888) to his daughter Julia Bowden (1859-1944), who married B. Frank Boykin, stockbroker. She continued to...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Singletary House

    • Singletary House
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    • Italianate style house built for Sarah Robeson Singletary (1801-1874), native of Bladen County and widow of William Singletary. From 1867 to 1888 residence of her son Franklin Coddington Singletary (1839-1894), superintendent of Wilmington and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bowden-Boykin House

    • Bowden-Boykin House
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    • Italianate style house built for Lemuel Henry Bowden (1825-1891), lumber inspector and city alderman; and wife, Mary Jane Flournoy Jacobs (1822-1888). Given to daughter, Julia Augusta Bowden (1859-1944), in 1888. She married Bias Franklin Boykin...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Cape Fear Club, 1913-1914

    • Cape Fear Club, 1913-1914

    • private clubs, men's clubs, Front Street, Chestnut Street, Cape Fear Club

    • The Cape Fear Club, located at Front and Chestnut Streets, is the oldest gentlemen's club in the South. The previous building was home to James Dawson, a cotton-broker and banker. The house was sold to the Cape Fear Club in 1888 and torn down to...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. J. F. Freeman

    • Dr. J. F. Freeman

    • Freeman family, Penton family, physicians, medicine

    • Dr. Jere David Freeman (1888-), son of Jerimiah and Irene G. Freeman, was born February 22, 1888. He married Miss Lidie Penton and received his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia in 1918.
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Cape Fear Club

    • Cape Fear Club

    • social clubs, Wilmington, North Carolina, Cape Fear Club

    • Organized in 1852, the Cape Fear Club is reputed to be the oldest gentlemen's club in the South in continuous existence. The building, which was the James Dawson House located on the Northwest corner of Front and Chestnut Streets, was sold to the...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Orton Hotel and the Royal Theater

    • Orton Hotel and the Royal Theater

    • hotels, Theaters, Businesses, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Antique automobiles, Bicycles

    • Photograph of the Orton Hotel and the Royal Theater in downtown Wilmington, N.C. The Orton Hotel was built by Colonel Kenneth Murchison in 1888 and named for his plantation in Brunswick County. The Royal Theater was one door down fron the hotel. ...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. J. F. Robertson, Jr.

    • Dr. J. F. Robertson, Jr.

    • Robertson family, physicians, Albright family, Sanderson family, Cancer Hospital

    • Dr. James Farish, Robertson, Jr. (1888-1975), son of James Farish Robertson, Sr., M.D. and Mary Elizabeth Grattan Robertson, was born in Culpepper, Virginia July 27th, 1888. His first wife was Juliette Howard Albright (1916); his second wife,...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Orton Hotel

    • Orton Hotel

    • hotels, Orton Hotel, Murchison

    • Orton Hotel was built by Col. Kenneth M. Murchison in 1888. James Walker was the general contractor. In 1896 Col. Murchison leased the building to R.W. Wallace and Co. In 1900 the rooms were 2.50-3.50 per day. The hotel was destroyed by fire in...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Ernest Bulluck

    • Dr. Ernest Bulluck

    • Bulluck family, physicians, Heyer family, Surgeons

    • Dr. Ernest Sutherland Bulluck (1888-1944), son of David William and Marie Sutherland Braswell Bulluck, was born July 26th, 1888, in Whitakers, South Carolina. He married Miss Mary Bell Heyer. His father, David William Bulluck and son, Matthew Heyer...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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