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    • Strange-Simmons House

    • Strange-Simmons House
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    • Rental house built for Florence Rogers Strange (1865-1953), widow of Thomas Wright Strange (1855-1899). Altered to duplex by Byron R. Simmons (1896-1972), interior decorator; and wife, Frances Lewis (1896-1988). For thirty-two years, first floor...
    • Port City Architecture
    • New Hanover High School

    • New Hanover High School
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    • Newclassical Revival style school opened in 1922 with an enrollment of 840 students, the largest in North Carolina. Leslie N. Boney, architect, designed the wings, 1930; the Princess Street gymnasium, 1940; and Brogden Hall, 1954. Notable students...
    • Port City Architecture
    • John G. Myers Cottage

    • John G. Myers Cottage
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    • One of twenty cottages built by Suburban Developing Company, subsidiary of Tide Water Power Company. Purchased in 1911 by John Quince Myers (1886-1912), clerk with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Remained in family until 1954. Donated in 1995 to...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Meadowlark Lemon House

    • Meadowlark Lemon House
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    • Queen Anne style house built as rental property by Erna C. Boesch (1864-1935), native of Hannover, Germany. Residence from 1946 to 1956 of Meadowlark George Lemon, Jr. (1913-1952), native of South Carolina and employee with Wilmington Waste Paper...
    • Port City Architecture
    • McCabe-Lancaster House

    • McCabe-Lancaster House
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    • Beach house built for Harry Lee McCabe (1895-1962), grocer; and wife, Vista Mae Taylor (1902-1982). Until Hurricane Hazel (1954), used variously as summer residence, rental property and apartments. Purchased in 1955by Luke Wilson Lancaster...
    • 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
    • U.S. Custom House

    • U.S. Custom House
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    • This massive Neoclassical Revival style building took three years to construct during World War I. The pedimented facades of the flanking wings are copies of the 1843 Greek Revival style custom house that stood previously on the site. In 1965, the...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Darby-McDonald House

    • Darby-McDonald House
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    • Craftsman bungalow built for Miss Mary C. Darby (1858-1938), real estate agent; and sister, Miss Margaret M. Darby (1857-1933), as rental property. Purchased in 1954 by Miss Harriet Bellamy McDonald (1905-1989), long-time Forest Hills elementary...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Darby-Munson House

    • Darby-Munson House
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    • Craftsman bungalow built for Miss Mary C. Darby (1858-1938), real estate agent; and sister, Miss Margaret M. Darby (1857-1933), as rental property. Purchased in 1954 by Miss Harriet Bellamy McDonald (1905-1989), long-time Forest Hills Elementary...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Robert Melton

    • Dr. Robert Melton

    • physicians, Robert Melton, Melton

    • Dr. Robert A. Melton (1930-), son of R.A. and Jennie Melton was born in Wilmington, North Carolina February 11th, 1930. He married Sara Melton and attended Duke, where, in 1954, he earned his M.D. He was a Pediatrician in private practice;...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. E. T. Marshburn

    • Dr. E. T. Marshburn

    • Marshburn family, Patrick family, physicians

    • Dr. Elisha Thomas Marshburn Jr. (1924-), son of Elisha and Eva Beasley Marshburn, was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, November 25th, 1924. He married Miss Lula Patrick and attended Wake Forest (1944) and Bowman Gray (1947). He was in private...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Calvin MacKay

    • Dr. Calvin MacKay

    • MacKay family, Plymette family, physicians

    • Dr. James Calvin Mackay (1924-), son of William Henry, M.D., and Florence Gompers McKay, was born in Washington, D.C., May 3rd, 1924. He married Miss Shirley Plymette and attended Cornell University (1944) and Bowman Gray (1947). He was in private...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Conway H. Ficklen

    • Dr. Conway H. Ficklen

    • Ficklen family, physicians

    • Dr. Conway Ficklen (1926-), son of V.C. Ficklen, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, September 7th, 1926. He was educated at the University of Virginia (1950) where he also received his M.D. in 1954. He married Rose G. Ficklen. He was President of the...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Seashore Hotel

    • Seashore Hotel

    • Seashore Hotel, Wrightsville Beach, Fire

    • Another scene after the fire and destruction of the Seashore Hotel, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on 26 June 1919. According to Beverly Tetterton, Wilmington: Lost But Not Forgotten (pages 178-179), a new three-story hotel was erected on the...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach - Ocean Terrace Hotel.

    • Wrightsville Beach - Ocean Terrace Hotel.

    • Ocean Terrace Hotel, Hotels, Wrightsville Beach, Beaches

    • About 1935, Mrs. J. A. Snyder leased the old Sea Shore Hotel and renamed it the Ocean Terrace Hotel. It was badly damaged by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 and burned to the ground the following year. The Blockade Runner Hotel, which was opened in 1964,...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach.

    • Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Pomander Walk Cottages

    • Pomander Walk Cottages were located on the western side of Lumina (shown in the background). In 1930, the twenty cottages, built on this site replaced a "Tent City," a project of the Tidewater Power Company, who also owned Lumina. The "city" was...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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