New Hanover County Public Library Digital Archives

T. C. Dickinson Co. Steam Dyeing and Cleaning Works
T. C. Dickinson Co., dry cleaning, steam cleaning, N. 5th Avenue, N. 5th Street, invoice
Invoice for T. C. Dickinson Co. Steam cleaning, etc. The cleaning business was located at 416 N. 5th Avenue.
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Bellamy Mansion and Kenan Fountain
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, John D. Bellamy, tourist attractions, historical sites, antebellum architecture, gifts,
Picture taken at the corner of 5th and Market St on the Carolina Apts. side. The Kenan Plaza Fountain,in the intersection of 5th & Market St., was given to the city by William Rand Kenan Jr. in 1921. The Bellamy Mansion sits in the background...
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Bellamy Mansion Slave Quarters
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, 5th and Market St, restoration, brickwork, slave owners
Myrick Howard, looking toward 5th St. with hands in pants pockets, stands in the left doorway (looking toward building) of the urban 2- story brick slave quarters of the Bellamy Mansion.
Star-News Image Archive

Bellamy Mansion Tours (2)
W@ilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, 5th and Market, antebellum architecture, Union headquarters, Civil War, Freedmen's Bureau, slaves, John D. Bellamy
Hundreds of people line-up down the sidewalk on Market St., between 4th and 5th streets for their turn to enter the Bellamy Mansion for the free tours offered by the Historic Preservation Foundation of N.C.. Architectural historian Ed Turberg was...
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Fifth Avenue Methodist Church
Neo-Gothic style church built for congregation organized in 1847 to serve residents in the southern section of the city. This building, which replaced an earlier wooden structure, was dedicated on September 26, 1890. The education building, erected...
Port City Architecture

Wessel-Hathaway House
Built in part by Jacob Wessel. In 1858 sold to James L. Hathaway from Fall River, Massachusetts who completed building, with James F. Post, architect.
Port City Architecture

Miles Costin House
Italianate style house built for Miles Costin (c. 1800-1873), planter, commission merchant and town commissioner; and wife, Catherine (c. 1809-1874). Mrs. Robt Ransoms Female Seminary operated here in 1871. Acquired in 1885 by John Wilder Atkinson...
Port City Architecture

Price-Leiner House
Neoclassical Revival style house built for Willie Ann Wood Price (1857-1931), widow of William P. Price (1853-1904). Purchased in 1919 by Ludwig Leiner (1862-1951); and wife, Katie Stuart Burriss (1880-1970). A native of Bavaria, he served in the...
Port City Architecture

King-Houston House
Queen Anne style house built for Joseph T. King (1871-1920), native of Bladen County and freight agent for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; and wife, Hattie Mahn (1873-1940). Purchased in 1913 by Benjamin Heriot Houston (1854-1926), clerk for...
Port City Architecture

Morrison House
Queen Anne style house built for Thomas Morrison (1828-1901), native of Philadelphia, locomotive engineer and Blockade Runner captain and engineer. Remained in family for fifty-seven years. Purchased in 1950 by Ellen Mae Johnson (1902-1988), wife...
Port City Architecture

William H. McEachern
Neoclassical Revival style house built for William H. McEachern (1874-1937), hay and grain merchant; and wife, Mary Elizabeth Davis (1873-1932). Owned by the family as rental property until 1943.
Port City Architecture

Richard Price House
Built for Richard W. Price, Harbor Master of the Port of Wilmington. Remained in the Price family until 1924.
Port City Architecture

Louis T. Moore House
Shingle style house built by the heirs of Edward Kidder (1805-1885), for daughter, Annie P. Kidder (1851-1927). Purchased in 1928 by Louis Toomer Moore (1885-1961); and wife, Florence Hill Kidder (1888-1971). He was executive secretary of the...
Port City Architecture

Williams House
Built for George W. Williams (1834-1899), merchant, as family residence. Remained in family for three generations.
Port City Architecture

A.M. Wilson House
Colonial Revival style house built as residence for Captain Alexander M. Wilson, Sr. (1851-1914); and wife, Ellen Nora Piver (1857-1911). At age 12, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and was engaged in the battle of Fort Fisher. He later became a...
Port City Architecture

Woodbury-Hoggard House
Italianate style house built for Daniel Phineas Woodbury (1812-1864), native of New Hampshire, US Army engineer, and Union Major General. Purchased in 1919 by John Thomas Hoggard (1876-1965); and wife, Virginia Hawes (1887-1967). He was a...
Port City Architecture

Worth-Madden House
Built for David Gaston Worth (1831-1897), owner of Worth & Worth, commission merchants. House was rented until acquired in 1871 by James Madden (1830-1908), steamboat agent for Cape Fear Steamboat Company; and wife, Margaret (1839-1907), both...
Port City Architecture

William Lincoln Smith House
Believed to be built by Henry M. Bishop in 1846. Later bought by William L. Smith as his family residence. Miss Mamie L. Alderman operated a private school here from 1904 until her death in 1934. The school was continued by her niece, Laura...
Port City Architecture

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