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...
Greek Revival style house built for John A. Taylor (1798-1873), native of New York, shipping and railroad industrialist, civic leader; and wife, Catherine M. Harriss (1806-1877). From 1893 to 1951 the building served as an armory for the Wilmington...
Neoclassical Revival style house built for Southport natives, Joseph Stokes Newton (1874-1958), stevedore; and wife, Daisy Burriss (1876-1950). Purchased in 1956 by Maurice Lee Millinor (1924- ), auto mechanic with C.C. Grissom & Sons; and wife,...
Neoclassical Revival style house built for William Edgar Perdue (1865-1934), civic leader and partner in J. W. Murchison & Son., hardware wholesalers. Purchased in 1946 by Henry Farrior Koonce (1897-1976), salesman; and wife Alda Howard...
Craftsman style house built by Charles D. Morrill (1851-1910), native of Boston, MA, contractor and builder; and wife, Caroline A. Williams (1853-1939), native of Columbus County. Purchased in 1920 by Rosser Yates Lennon (1871-1963), freight...
Italianate and Classical Revival style city hall and theater built for the citizens of Wilmington, the largest town in North Carolina at the time. One of the nations few surviving antebellum buildings constructed to serve as both governmental and...
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...
This divided back postcard features a photograph by W. Kendall Dorsey which captures Capt. Eddy Haneman deep sea fishing in the boat ""Martha Ellen,"" off Wrightsville Beach.
churches, Episcopal churches, St. James Episcopal Church, South Third Street
St. James Episcopal Church, located at One South Third Street, was acquired by the congregation from Armand deRosset (the rest of the land was acquired over the years). It's design and construction involved at least 10 different architects and...
Dr. John Watts Farthing (1909-1957) was a native of Pittsboro, N.C. who received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1933. He practiced surgery in Wilmington from 1938 to 1956.
Dr. John William Ormond, Jr., son of John William and Louise Thomas Ormand, was born August 26th, 1930 in Wilmington, North Carolina. His father John and brother Thomas Lane Ormand were also medical doctors. He married Miss Betsy Castelloe and...
Dr. Robert William Nicholson, (1916-), son of Louis and Hazel Nicholson, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, October 24th, 1916. He married Jane Nicholson, attended Kenyon (1939) and Temple University Medical School (1943). He was in private practice...
Dr. Andrew Howell Harriss, son of George Harriss and Julia Ophelia Sanders Harriss, was born March 7th, 1872 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married Miss Mary Montgomery Wilcox Bolles October 14th, 1896. His grandfather, William James Harris was...
Murchison Building, Murchison/Acme Building, Bijou Theater, N. Front Street, Chesnut Street
The Murchison Building (at left) and the Murchison/Acme Building are on the corners. The Morris Plan Bank occupied the latter building at one time. Two doors from the Murchison Building is the structure, where Bulluck Hospital was located for a...