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    • D & E Car Exchange

    • D & E Car Exchange

    • automobile dealers, cars, businesses

    • This photograph captures the grand opening of the D & E Car Exchange on April 24, 1972 on Market Street in Wilmington, N.C. Pictured are R. Zimmerman, Jimmy Metts, Jimmy Flynn, L. E. LaMarsh, J. G. Slim Dubose, Martin Dubose, and Mrs. Edith...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Marshall Cottage

    • Marshall Cottage
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built as rental property for Basil Humphrey Marshall (1870-1951), manager of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Pass Bureau; and wife Mary Octavia Styron (1881-1966). The house remained in family until 1972.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bellamy Mansion

    • Bellamy Mansion
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    • Classical style house built by slaves and free black artisans, for John Dillard Bellamy (1817-1896), physician, planter, and business leader; and wife, Eliza McIlhenny Harriss (1821-1907). After the fall of Fort Fisher, in 1865, commandeered as...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Larkins House

    • Larkins House
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    • Family residence of William Larkins (1829-1891), Wilmington native, wholesale grocer & liquor dealer, cashier of First National Bank, and rice planter. House sold in 1903 to Samuel Behrends, merchant and furniture store owner, in whose family it...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Morrill-Lennon House

    • Morrill-Lennon House
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    • 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...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bridgers House

    • Bridgers House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Elizabeth Eagles Haywood (1857-1932), widow of Preston L. Bridgers. Remained in Bridgers family until 1944. Headquarters of American Legion Post #10 from 1944 to 1972.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Cumming-Duls House

    • Cumming-Duls House
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    • Italianate style house built for Preston Cumming (1843-1914), commission merchant; and wife, Virginia Lilly (1848-1892). Purchased in 1886 by Jacob W. Dulls (1852-1915), retail grocer; and wife, Katherine Gieschen (1863-1911), both natives of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Murchison Building

    • Murchison Building

    • Murchison Building

    • At eleven stories, the Murchison-First Union Building is the tallest structure in Wilmington. Built 1913-1914, Wilmington native, Kenneth M. Murchison (1872-1938) of New York, was the architect for the Neoclassical Revival building, which...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. E. T. Marshburn and a Student Nurse

    • Dr. E. T. Marshburn and a Student Nurse

    • Marshburn family, physicians, nursing students, hospitals, James Walker Memorial Hospital

    • Dr. Elisha Thomas Marshburn Sr. (1924-) was born in Wilmington, N.C., November 25th, 1924 to Elisha and Eva Beasley Marshburn. He received his eduction from Wake Forest (1944) and his M.D. from Bowman Gray in 1947. He was Chief of Staff at New...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Charles Graham

    • Dr. Charles Graham

    • Graham family, McKoy family, physicians, Surgeons

    • Dr. Charles Pattison Graham (1907-), son of Benjamin Robinson and Edith Boles Graham, was born August 28th, 1907 in Wallace, North Carolina. He married Jean Mckoy, April 23rd, 1938. His great grandfather, grandfather, father and son were also...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • North Front Street - 200 block.

    • North Front Street - 200 block.

    • N. Front Street, Murchison, Chestnut Street

    • Chestnut Street - 100 block - north side The main buildings are (from left) the first floor of the Murchison Building, (built 1913/1914); the Murchison National Bank-Acme Building (1902) and the tall building to the left, the Cape Fear Hotel...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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