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    • 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
    • Bergen-Carpender House

    • Bergen-Carpender House
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    • Prairie style house built for Walter John Bergen (1859-1931), secretary of Alexander Sprunt & Sons, Cotton Brokers; and wife, Mary Madden (1867-1947), natives of New York. Purchased in 1947 by Edwin Robinson Carpender (1882-1965), native of New...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Confederate Memorial Monument - 1924.

    • Confederate Memorial Monument - 1924.

    • Civil War, Monument, Confederacy, Bacon, Boney, S. Third Street, Dock Street

    • Designed by Henry Bacon, the monument, located on the plaza at intersection of South Third and Dock streets was donated to the City of Wilmington in 1924, by Gabriel Boney. The sculptor of the two bronze figures, representing courage and...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Fisher House

    • Fisher House
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    • Bungalow built as investment property for W.P. McGlaughon. Purchased in 1924 by Hervey Taylor Fisher (1883-1931), native of Fayetteville, NC, and auditor for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; and wife, Lula Suggs (1885-1968), native of Kinston, NC....
    • 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
    • Stevens House

    • Stevens House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built for Hugh C. Calder (1891-1972), teller for Murchison Bank. Purchased in 1924 by John Alexander Stevens (1895-1990), native of Sampson County, attorney, who practiced law for over 70 years; and wife, Mildred Thompson...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Runge-Tienken House

    • Runge-Tienken House
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    • House built as rental property for Johanna Helena Eckle Runge (1835-1920), native of Wremen, Germany. Purchased in 1924, as residence, by George Frederick Gottlieb Tienken (1877-1935), wholesale grocer; and wife, Christine Meta Hintze...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Saint Mary Church

    • Saint Mary Church
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    • Spanish Baroque style church built using R. Gustavino Company's patented brick and tile vaulting system, rendering the use of steel or wooden beams and nails unnecessary. Construction managed by the Rev. Monsignor Christopher C. Dennen...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Taylor-West House

    • Taylor-West House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built as rental property for Col. Walker Taylor (1864-1937), insurance underwriter. Purchased in 1924 by Stella Florence Baggett West (1875-1961), wife of Charles H. West (1865-1930), watchman for East Coast Fertilizer...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Wrightsboro Elementary School

    • Wrightsboro Elementary School
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    • The original one-story brick building constructed to consolidate Acorn Branch, Castle Hayne and Wrightsboro Schools was expanded in 1927. A second story was added in 1939 and a cafeteria built in 1953. Additional classrooms were added in 1963, 1968...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bowden-Foard House

    • Bowden-Foard House
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    • Italianate style house built for Italianate style house built for Mary Strauss Bowden (1859-1919); and husband, Capt. Joseph J. Bowden (1847-1916), Confederate veteran and conductor with the Seaboard Air Line Railway. Purchased in 1924 by Osborn G....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Cowan House

    • Cowan House
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    • Believed to have been constructed by Jane Cowan, second wife of Governor Edward B. Dudley and remained in Cowan family until 1871. Purchased by Captain W.P. Oldham (1836-1918), commission merchant, grist mill owner, clerk of the board of audit and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Delgado School

    • Delgado School
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    • 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...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. R. B. "Bunny" Hare

    • Dr. R. B. "Bunny" Hare

    • Hare family, physicians, Urologists, Stewart family

    • Dr. Ransom Bryant Hare, Jr. (1903-), son of Ransom Bryant and Lillian Baker Hare, was born in Florence, South Carolina, October 12th, 1903. He married Miss Mary Stewart, attended the University of N.C. (1924) and the University of S.C. (1933-75)....
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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