Tileston School, Schools, St. Mary's Cathedral, Churches, Fifth Avenue, Ann Street
Children in costumes pose on Tileston School playground on corner of Fifth Avenue and Ann streets. St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral is in the background.
The original school building in the middle of the block was constructed in 1871-1872 with funds from...
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...
Samuel Bear & Sons storage building (1018 South Fifth Avenue) is at center.
The area of Wilmington south of Castle Street is known as Dry Pond. As its name implies, a number of years ago there was a pond in this section which eventually dried up....
Ulysses Hankins stands in front of Louis T. Moore’s residence in the 100 block of South Fifth Avenue. Mr. Hankins was the organist at St. Luke’s A.M.E. Zion Church on South Seventh Street.
Ann Street, S. Fourth Street, S. Fifth Avenue, Tileston School, Schools
Children in costume in Tileston School yard on the Fourth Street side. One of the city's boundary oaks is at left. In 1740, the oak tree marked the south east boundary of the town of Wilmington. In the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth...
An elementary school, William Hooper School, at left, was built in 1914, and was named for one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from North Carolina. The sanctuary and manse of Immanuel Presbyterian Church can be seen across Fifth...
On the left side of the street is the front and side porch of the John Dawson House, (1857), the side of the Carolina Apartments (1906-1907). The Kenan Memorial Fountain (1921) is in the center of the intersection of Market and Fifth Avenue. On the...
Ocean Avenue is no longer there, lost to severe beach erosion. The cottages on either side of the Moore cottage were burned in the devastating fire of 1934, which destroyed all of the buildings on the northern extension. Note the typical wicker...
Florence Kidder Moore and her daughters, Florence Moore Dunn and Margaret (Peggy) Moore Perdew pose among sea oats on a sand dune in front of the Moore cottage on Ocean Avenue at Wrightsville Beach.
Ocean Avenue is no longer there, lost to severe...
Bungalow built as wedding gift by Asa Haynes High for son Daniel Pinckney High (1886-1926), native of Columbus County, N C, dentist; and wife, Janet Poag (1883-1971), native of Lancaster, SC. House remained in family until 1986.
Commercial building constructed for Esther Naomi Mintz Yopp (1891-1972) and built by contractor, Sam Blake. Occupied by various restaurants from 1947 to 1969. Building remains in family.
Hotel designed by owner and manager Mrs. W. R. Yopp, (E. Naomi Mintz-Yopp, 1891-1972), and built by contractor A. B. Yopp. After her death, the hotel has remained in the family and continues to be operated by daughter, E. Naomi Yopp. Many...
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...
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...
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...
Bungalow built by Tide Water Power Company for F. Lacy King (1889-1947), Vice President-Operations for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; and wife Lillian Taylor (1890-1990), native of Virginia. Purchased in 1944 by John Cleon Williams, co-founder and...
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...
Neoclassical Revival style house built for William Oscar Page (1870-1953), native of Warsaw, NC; and wife, Bertha Ida Barber (1872-1951). He owned the Greenfield Milling Company. Purchased in 1940 by Marsden Bruce Ward, Jr. (1896-1977), marine...