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    • Boats

    • This divided back postcard features a photograph by Jack Loughlin capturing people boating, swimming, and skiing near Wrightsville Beach.
    • Postcard Collections
    • George R. French & Sons Building

    • George R. French & Sons Building
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    • Wilmingtons first iron-front and steel-frame structure, built for George Reade French (1802-1889), native of Massachusetts, boot and shoe merchant. George R. French & Sons, established in 1822, was continued by William A. French (1835-1907) and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • John D. Bellamy Building

    • John D. Bellamy Building
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    • Commercial building constructed as rental property for John D. Bellamy, Jr. (1854-1942), attorney and U.S. congressman; and wife, Emma May Hargrove (1857-1944), native of Hibernia Plantation, Granville County, NC. Remained in family for forty-five...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Wigwam

    • Wigwam
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    • Summer cottage built for Jane Parsley (1838-1916); and husband, Capt. Henry Russell Savage (1834-1904), Confederate veteran and partner in the firm of O.G. Parsley & Company, commission merchants. Remained in family until 1941. Purchased in 1957 by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Thomas Henry Wright Building

    • Thomas Henry Wright Building
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    • Original portion of building erected as rental property for Thomas Henry Wright (1800-1866), physician, merchant, and President of the Bank of Cape Fear. Property remained in Wright family until 1957. Facade altered in 1915 by Henry E. Bonitz,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Sternberger Building

    • Sternberger Building
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    • Renaissance style building constructed for Isadore J. Sternberger (1868-1811), grocer; and wife, Rebecca Bear (1874-1950). Leased to Hyman Supply Company from 1906 to 1957, purveyors of mill machinery and supplies, whose motto was Everything for...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Chadwick-Teague House

    • Chadwick-Teague House
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    • Craftsman style house, one of the first two residences in Sunset Park, built for David Nicholas Chadwick (1884-1962), secretary-treasurer of Fidelity Trust and Development Company, developer of Sunset Park; and wife, Ethel Hopkins (1885-1966). ...
    • 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
    • J. Lowell White House

    • J. Lowell White House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Joseph Lowell White (1880-1947), native of Burlington, Iowa, Superintendent of Transportation, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; and wife, Ola Rogers, native of Texas. Purchased in 1957 by William Osler Humphrey...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Vollers-Hardin-Walker House

    • Vollers-Hardin-Walker House
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    • Queen Anne style house built by and for Louis Henry Vollers (1862-1943), native of Point Caswell, building contractor; and wife, Susan A. Barnhhill (1862-1942). Purchased in 1900 by John Haywood Hardin (1853-1932), native of Washington, D.C.,...
    • Port City Architecture
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    • Sunbathing

    • This divided back postcard features a photograph which captures people sunbathing and surf bathin in front of Lumina Pavilion at Wrightsville Beach.
    • Postcard Collections
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    • Sailboats

    • This divided back postcard features a photograph by Jack Loughlin which captures two sailboats racing in a bay at Wrightsville Beach.
    • Postcard Collections
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    • Boats

    • This divided back postcard features a photograph which captures sailboats racing and people swimming in a bay at Wrightsville Beach.
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    • Harbor Island

    • This divided back postcard features a photograph capturing the bridge from Wrightsville Beach to Harbor Island.
    • Postcard Collections

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