Classical Revival style elementary school constructed to educate the children of Southside Wilmington. Eliza Meares (1864-1926), served as the first principal from 1914 to 1925. Used as a school until 1984. Converted to apartments for the...
Built for William A. French (1835-1907) as investment property and leased to various merchants including tailors, clothiers and stationers. Purchased in 1914 by Isaac Shrier (1841-1920), clothier, native of Bavaria, who renovated the building in...
Craftsman style house built for Warren Sylvester Johnson (1876-1961), native of Clinton, NC, president of Peoples Savings Bank & Trust Company; and wife, Hattie Harlee Bellamy (1876-1965). House remained in family for fifty-five years.
Craftsman style two family dwelling built for Carl Peter Barthold Mahler (1874-1956), real estate and rental agent, and wife Meta Brunjes (1868-1957), during their ownership of the DeRosset property to the west. Natives of Germany, they lived here...
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.
Neoclassical Revival style house built for Richard Price McClammy (1874-1955), editor and publisher of The Evening Dispatch; and wife, Janie L. Bryan (1876-1918). Purchased in 1948 by Pender County natives, Carl Flay Powell, Sr. (1906-1990),...
Commercial building constructed as rental property for the Hanover Trust Company. First used as stables by W.B. McClellan & Son. Other tenants included a variety of automobile dealerships, repair and upholstery; wholesale feeds and groceries; and...
Commercial building erected for George H. Bradley (1805-1880), native of New Haven, CT, boot and shoe merchant, after devastating fire of 1840 that destroyed much of block. From 1910 to 1963 this was the location of Greens Drug Store, operated by...
Neoclassical Revival style house built for William Kimry Stewart (1875-1966); and wife, Fannie Rumbley (1876-1969), natives of South Carolina. He was a partner in Stewart & Oterson, mens furnishings and dry goods, and vice-president of Wilmington...
Original house built for Charles W. Worth (1861-1930), secretary-treasurer of Wilmington Terminal Warehouse Co.; and wife, Emma Walker (1867-1956), native of Asheboro, NC. Purchased and enlarged in the Neoclassical Revival style by William H....
Neoclassical Revival style duplex designed and built as residence by Max Warshauer (1880-1949), native of Lithuania, merchant; and wife, Clara Goldstein (1895-1991). Property remains in family.
Neoclassical Revival style house built for Henry Clay Bear (1878-1925), realtor and secretary-treasurer of The Independent Ice Company; and wife, Lena Solomon (1882-1975), active in civic and charitable affairs.
Dutch Colonial style house built for Walter May Collins (1869-1945), native of Lincolnshire, England, farmer; and wife, Wilella James (1875-1961), native of Pender County. Purchased in 1946 by Willie Avant Jones, Sr. (1895-1976), native of...
Originally a three-room Neoclassical Revival style school built for children living in the Delgado Cotton Mill village. In 1940, renamed for Washington Catlett (1852-1934), New Hanover County educator and administrator for fifty-seven years. The...
Neoclassical Revival style house built for Ralph P. Eakins (1890-1937), salesman with Bluethenthal Company, dry goods, and Pullman Car Lines conductor; and wife, Ella Brady (1886-1955), city assistant librarian. House remained in family until 1958.
This b&w panoramic photograph of the Cape Fear River was taken from the top of the Murchison Building. It shows the southern half of the waterfron in 1914.