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    • W. B. Thorpe & Co.

    • W. B. Thorpe & Co.

    • W. B. Thorpe & Co., Thorpe, Water Street, Ann Street

    • W. B. Thorpe & Co., Northeast corner of Water and Ann streets. Vernacular style warehouse built for Phila Lazarus Calder (1806-1888), who inherited property from her father, Aaron Lazarus (1771-1841). Remained in family until purchased in 1910 by...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • B.U.M.P. Theatre Company

    • B.U.M.P. Theatre Company

    • theater, drama, plays, New Hanover County

    • Victor (Steve Coley) upends Corie (Hope Brownewell) as an astonished Paul (Pierre Brulatour) looks on in a scene from Barefoot in the Park. The play was performed by the B.U.M.P Theatre Company in Wilmington, N.C.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • B'nai Israel Sukkah

    • B'nai Israel Sukkah

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Jewish, holidays, ceremonies, religious, Succoth

    • Inside a Sukkah, Rabbi Robert Waxman and children of B'nai Israel Synagogue review the Lulav and Etrog (ceremonial branches of palm, willow and myrtle with citron fruit).
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • The Glenn

    • The Glenn
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    • 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...
    • Port City Architecture
    • J. B. F. Fales Residence

    • J. B. F. Fales Residence

    • Fales, James Benjamin Franklin Fales (1859-1925), 6th St., Castle St., Davis family, Margaret Williams Davis, C.B. Davis, Jr.

    • Pictured is a painting of the house done by Margaret Williams Davis, wife of C. B. Davis, Jr., M.D. (Dr. Davis is a nephew of Dr. Fales). The house, located at 518 Castle St. on the SW corner, was built in 1909. The Fales family lived there until...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dudley Mansion

    • Dudley Mansion

    • Dudley Mansion, Governors, Edward B. Dudley

    • Built by Edward B. Dudley (1789-1855), rice planter, president of Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad Company and Governor (1836-1841), first elected by popular vote. Purchased in 1885 by J. Pembroke Jones (1858-1919), capitalist; and wife, Sarah W....
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • B'nai Israel Bombing

    • B'nai Israel Bombing

    • New Hanover County, Jews, policemen, religions, bombs, explosions, judaism, conservative

    • An unidentified Wilmington police detective enters the synagogue at 2601 Chesnut St where another man looks out the door. The synagogue's vestibule and facade was heavily damaged (one column down, windows blown out and holes in the brick walls) by...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Bus Accident

    • Bus Accident

    • New Hanover, North Carolina

    • Wilmington police officers, J.D. Wright, and B.L. Daniels, prepare their report following a school bus/car collision at the intersection of 13th Street and Wooster Street early Wednesday morning. The bus driver, Larry Lloyd, had just dropped off a...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Fanning House

    • Fanning House
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    • Italianate style house built for Phineas Wines Fanning (1799-1880), native of Nantucket, MA; house, ship and sign painter, Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina from 1844 to 1846. Purchased in 1883 by Joseph Newman (1810-1887), native of Kingdom...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Farrior-Taylor House

    • Farrior-Taylor House
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    • Vernacular style house built for Sanders Farrior (b. 1854), stiller; and wife, Isabella Henderson (b. 1858). Purchased for rental property in 1897 by John E. Taylor (1858-1925), first assistant to treasurer of City of Wilmington. Remained in family...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Fifth Avenue Methodist Church

    • Fifth Avenue Methodist Church
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    • 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
    • Fox-Holden House

    • Fox-Holden House
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    • Cottage owned by George A. Fox (b. 1830), native of Pennsylvania, Wilmington & Weldon Railroad engineer; and wife, Julia A. (b. 1841), native of South Carolina. Purchased in 1881 by Sylvanus Holden (d. 1894), carpenter; and wife, Ann Maria Harper...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Peyton Hoge House

    • Peyton Hoge House
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    • Queen Anne style house built according to the drawings prepared by first owner, the Rev. Peyton Harrison Hoge (1858-1940), native of Hampden-Sydney, VA and minister of First Presbyterian Church (1885-1899); and wife, Mary Stuart Holladay...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Humphreys-Cooper House

    • Humphreys-Cooper House
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    • Shingled cottage built for Charles Raymond Humphreys (1881-1929), civil engineer; and wife, Lilian Miller Kenly (1890-1979), natives of Maryland. Purchased in 1929 by Oscar Fleet Cooper (1878-1948), advertising agent for Atlantic Coast Line...
    • Port City Architecture

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