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    • Lazarus House Kitchen

    • Lazarus House Kitchen
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    • Built by Aaron Lazarus (1777-1841), a merchant and native of Charleston, SC, as one of two kitchens for his principal residence which still stands to the East. Converted to a residence by 1889. Purchased and enlarged in 1923 by Aaron Goldberg,...
    • 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
    • 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
    • Hale-Henderson House

    • Hale-Henderson House
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    • Dutch Colonial Revival style house built for John W. Hale, bookkeeper; and wife, Lona Allen. From 1930 to 1968, occupied by William Harman Henderson (1887-1971), Assistant Vice-president of Traffic for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; and wife,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Salvation Army Building

    • Salvation Army Building
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    • The Wilmington chapter of the Salvation Army was organized in 1887. After operating in various locations, this Mediterranean style building was the first to be constructed for the organization at a cost of $30,000. The cornerstone was laid April...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Graham Barefoot

    • Dr. Graham Barefoot

    • Barefoot family, physicians, medicine

    • Dr. Graham B. Barefoot (1900-1967), was born in Columbus County, North Carolina, March 1st, 1900. He is the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Freddie Blake Barefoot and had one brother, William Frederick Barefoot, M.D. He married Elizabeth Murray. He...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Foy-Taylor House

    • Foy-Taylor House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built as investment property for Newton Fisher (1889-1951). Purchased in 1923 by Norwood Leslie Foy (1891-1990), native of Scotts Hill, NC, partner in Foy-Roe & Company, retail clothing; and wife, Elizabeth Southerland...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Sadgwar House

    • Sadgwar House
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    • Built by Frederick Cutlar Sadgwar, Sr., (1843-1925), black carpenter-builder and civic leader; and wife, Caroline Huggins (1845-1932). He and daughter, Felice, were the first Bahais in North Carolina, enrolled c. 1923. The original one-story house...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Seigler-Underwood Building

    • Seigler-Underwood Building
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    • Commercial structure built for Samuel Seigler (1884-1952), native of South Carolina, realtor. Purchased for rental property in 1923 by Ural Alexander Underwood (1873-1948), general contractor. Variously occupied by groceries, confectionaries, and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Love-Pretlow House

    • Love-Pretlow House
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    • Craftsman style house built for William Walter Love (1877-1930), wholesale grocer and president of Carolina Packing Co.; and wife, Bettie Johnson (1880-1964). Purchased in 1923 by Annie Paddison Pretlow (1876-1959); wife of Joel Cook Pretlow...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Platt-Sutherland House

    • Platt-Sutherland House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built for Robert C. Platt (1870-1953), retail clothing merchant and clerk in city auditor's office; and wife Robbie Sutton (1881-1966), native of Burgaw. Purchased in 1961 by William Owen Sheppard Sutherland (1890-1969),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bass-Oliver House

    • Bass-Oliver House
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    • Colonial Revival house built for John Mangum Bass (1878-1949), native of Magnolia, NC, roadway timekeeper and accountant for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Purchased in 1923 by Virginia Taylor Oliver (1894-1985), homemaker. Remained in family for...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Davis-Warshauer House

    • Davis-Warshauer House
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    • Bungalow built as investment property for Dewey Hobson Davis of D.H. Furniture; and wife, Madeline Malbrant Poulifiant, native of France. Purchased in 1938 by Clara Goldstein Warshauer (1895-1991); and husband, Max Warshauer (1880-1949), native of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Robeson House

    • Robeson House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built as rental property for Edward Wilkinson, telegraph operator for Western Union. Purchased in 1925 by Cad Alexander Robeson (1891-1965), native of Pender County, car inspector for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Durham-Davis House

    • Durham-Davis House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for James H. Durham (1849-1922), native of Wayne County, NC, dentist; and wife, Nellie Alston (1857-1884), native of Pittsboro, NC. Purchased in 1923 by Charles B. Davis (1877-1959), clerk with the Atlantic Coast Line...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Tolar-Bolles House

    • Tolar-Bolles House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built for Erasmus Hiram Tolar (1876-1944), native of Cumberland County, NC, foreman, Wilmington Terminal and Warehouse Co.; and wife, Hattie Delk (1885-1917), native of Norfolk, VA. Purchased in 1952 by Howard Henry Bowles...
    • Port City Architecture
    • A.C. Diehl House

    • A.C. Diehl House
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    • Cottage built for Arthur Chester Diehl (1884-1946), vice-president of Naco Fertilizer Company, a subsidiary of W.R. Grace, Company; and wife, Victoria Lynch (1901-1969). They were natives of New York.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Ed Wells

    • Dr. Ed Wells

    • Wells family, physicians, Plastic Surgeons

    • Dr. Edwin Julius Wells, Jr. (1923-), son of Edwin Julius, Sr. and Mamie Highsmith Wells, was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, September 1st, 1923. He married Miss Louise Warner and attended UNC-Chapel Hill (1944) and The University of...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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