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    • The Glenn Restaurant

    • The Glenn Restaurant
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    • Commercial building constructed for Esther Naomi Mintz Yopp (1891-1972) and built by contractor, Sam Blake. Occupied by various restaurants from 1947 to 1969. Building remains in family.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Farrior-Taylor House

    • Farrior-Taylor House
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    • Vernacular style house built for Sanders Farrior (b. 1854), stiller; and wife, Isabella Henderson (b. 1858). Purchased for rental property in 1897 by John E. Taylor (1858-1925), first assistant to treasurer of City of Wilmington. Remained in family...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Gore Building

    • Gore Building
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    • Commercial structure built as rental property for Daniel Lennox Gore (1847-1925), native of Columbus County, Confederate veteran, and real estate investor. The first tenant, Pickard-Bleecker Automobile Company, sold and serviced Chalmers motor...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Grace Church Sunday School Annex

    • Grace Church Sunday School Annex
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    • The only portion of Grace Methodist Church to survive the 1947 fire, was dedicated on January 14, 1917, during the tenure of the Reverend M. T. Plyler. Building committee members were R. C. Merritt, chairman, J. E. Willoughby, J. T. King, T. A....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Munson-Bessellieu House

    • Munson-Bessellieu House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Horace P. Munson (1866-1958), tailor, as rental property. In 1907 rented to Edward C. Bessellieu (18661943), bookkeeper for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; and wife, Emma Smith (1871-1945). He purchased the...
    • 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
    • Thomas C. Miller

    • Thomas C. Miller
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    • Cottage built for Thomas C. Miller (b. 1849), deputy sheriff, realtor and pawn broker. Inherited by son, Thomas Jr. (1874-1939), porter; and wife, Carlotta Harriss (b. 1866). Remained in family until 1947.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Colonel Walker Taylor House

    • Colonel Walker Taylor House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for Col. Walker Taylor (1864-1937), owner of insurance agency, civic leader and founder of Brigade Boys Club; and wife, Rosa Lilly Cumming (1873-1946). Owned by Lee Porter (1899-1986), of Lancaster, SC.; and wife, Ethel...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Reaves-Hayes House

    • Reaves-Hayes House
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    • House built by William J. Reaves (1861-1917), builder and contractor, as investment property. Hubert Hayes (1895-1982); and wife, Margaret Spell (b. 1900) occupied house from 1934 to 1968. Hayes was a long time member of Wilmington Police...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Ofiesh-Plisco Building

    • Ofiesh-Plisco Building
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    • Duplex stores and apartments built for George Ofiesh (1897-1929), native of Mouhaidee, Lebanon, confectioner; and wife, Emily E. (1907-1997) of Altoona, PA. Leo O. Plisco (1916- ) of Kinston, NC; and wife, Florence Snyderman (1920- ) of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Coast Guard

    • Coast Guard

    • U.S. Coast Guard, Vietnam, The Mendota, Willard J. Smith

    • A U.S. Coast Guard cutter docks in Wilmington after returning from a 10-month tour of duty off of the coast of Vietnam. The Mendota was based out of Wilmington since 1947. Coast Guard families, locals, and dignitaries including Coast Guard...
    • Wilmington Harbor Collection
    • 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
    • Home of Dr. Robert M. Fales

    • Home of Dr. Robert M. Fales

    • Fales family, residences, physicians, Azalea Festival, Renovah Circle

    • Front view of the home of Dr. Robert M. Fales, located at 407 Renovah Circle in Wilmington, taken during the Azalea Festival. Dr. Fales, son of James Benjamin Franklin and Maggie Delena Hewlett Fales, was born February 25th, 1907, in Wilmington,...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Home of Dr. Robert M. Fales II

    • Home of Dr. Robert M. Fales II

    • Fales family, Renovah Circle, Azalea Festival, physicians, residences

    • Front view of the home of Dr. Robert M. Fales, located at 407 Renovah Circle in Wilmington, taken during the Azalea Festival. Dr. Fales, son of James Benjamin Franklin and Maggie Delena Hewlett Fales, was born February 25th, 1907, in Wilmington,...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Home of Dr. Robert M. Fales III

    • Home of Dr. Robert M. Fales III

    • Fales family, physicians, residences, Azalea Festival, Renovah Circle

    • Front view of the home of Dr. Robert M. Fales, located at 407 Renovah Circle in Wilmington, taken during the Azalea Festival. Dr. Fales, son of James Benjamin Franklin and Maggie Delena Hewlett Fales, was born February 25th, 1907, in Wilmington,...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales

    • Dr. Robert M. Fales

    • Fales family, Taylor family, physicians, medicine, Wilmington, New Hanover Memorial Hospital

    • Dr. Robert Martin Fales, son of James Benjamin Franklin and Maggie Delena Hewlett Fales, was born February 25th, 1907, in Wilmington, N.C. He married Miss Sarah Taylor, and attended Wake Forest and Jefferson Medical College, where he earned his...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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