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- Captain John Harper House
- Neoclassical Revival style house built for Captain John W. Harper (1856-1917); and his bride, Ella C. Strupe (1878-1945). He was the owner of Wilmington and Southport Steamboat Company which operated the steamers Wilmington and Sylvan Grove. An...
- Port City Architecture
- Hinton-Nixon House
- Dutch Colonial Revival style house built for Edgar Latimer Hinton (1868-1936), businessman and owner of the Seashore Hotel at Wrightsville Beach; and wife, Mamie E. Lively (b. 1882), native of Birmingham, AL. From 1941 to 1991 owned by Nixon...
- Port City Architecture
- Joseph Loughlin House
- Queen Anne style house built for Joseph J. Loughlin (1881-1918); and wife, Eleanor King (1885-1941). He was Secretary/Treasurer of New Hanover Transit Company, a primary developer of Carolina Beach. An infantry captain, he was killed in France...
- Port City Architecture
- Loughlin Cottage
- Craftsman style bungalow built for Joseph J. Loughlin (1881-1918); and wife, Eleanor King (1885-1941), native of Philadelphia. He was secretary-treasurer and general manager of the New Hanover Transit Company, a primary developer of Carolina Beach....
- Port City Architecture
- John G. Myers Cottage
- One of twenty cottages built by Suburban Developing Company, subsidiary of Tide Water Power Company. Purchased in 1911 by John Quince Myers (1886-1912), clerk with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Remained in family until 1954. Donated in 1995 to...
- Port City Architecture
- Martindale House
- Built by Henry Martindale (1796-1874), planter, as family residence. His son, Henry Alexander Martindale (1837-1911), truck farmer, made additions to house. Inherited by his daughter, Rebecca Martindale Johnson (1870-1948). House remained in...
- Port City Architecture
- Churchill Cottage
- Summer beach cottage built for Colin Francis Churchill (1900-1972), native of Siler City, NC, engineer; and wife, Mildred Dorset (1906-1985). Remained in family until 1933. Painted as The Beach Cottage in 1981 by Claude Howell.
- Port City Architecture
- McCabe-Lancaster House
- Beach house built for Harry Lee McCabe (1895-1962), grocer; and wife, Vista Mae Taylor (1902-1982). Until Hurricane Hazel (1954), used variously as summer residence, rental property and apartments. Purchased in 1955by Luke Wilson Lancaster...
- Port City Architecture
- Hinton House
- Mission style house built for Joseph Hatch Hinton (1870-1952), and wife, Camille Pennington (1876-1950), native of Tarboro, NC. He was the owner and manager of the Orton Hotel from 1906 to 1936; a stockholder of Seashore and Oceanic hotels at...
- Port City Architecture
- Nathan Cottage
- Neoclassical Revival style cottage built as investment property for Aaron A. Nathan (1851-1920), native of columbia, South Carolina; and wife, Jeanette Schloss (1858-1929), native of Warrenton, North Carolina. He was a real estate investor and...
- Port City Architecture
- Allen-Collier House
- Colonial Revival style house built for Fulton Temple Allen (1868-1941), secretary-treasurer of Acme Fertilizer Company; and wife, Anna Bell Pearce (1870-1948), natives of Virginia. Purchased in 1963 by Joshua Frank Collier (1902-1965), realtor,...
- Port City Architecture
- L.W. Davis House
- Italianate style house built for Lorenzo Warren Davis (1859-1926), native of Carteret County, NC, president of I.W. Davis & Co., retail and wholesale clothing; and wife, Sarah Catherine Smith (1870-1961). Davis was also one of the developers of...
- Port City Architecture
- Davis-Patteson Cottage
- Vernaclar style beach cottage built for Arnold Gates Davis (1848-1917), naturalist; and wife, Katherine W. Rowe (1854-1928), natives of New York. Purchased in 1945 by James S. Patteson, Jr. (1897-1977), cotton broker; and wife, Marie W. Rosebrock...
- Port City Architecture
- Audubon Trolley Station
- Constructed to coincide with the development of the suburb Audubon, this is the only surviving passenger shelter of twenty stops on the electric trolley line between Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach. The line, owned and operated by the Tide Water...
- Port City Architecture
- Wrightsville Beach Pier
- Postcard Collections
- Wrightsville Beach, ca. late 1920s.
- Five children in bathing suits pose at the beach near Lumina. Note the movie screen in the water at left. In 1901, the beach car line from Wilmington to Wrightsville Beach was sold by the Wilmington and Seacoast Railroad to the Consolidated...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Air Show Air Crash at New Hanover County Airport (1)
- Air shows, New Hanover County Airport
- General Gilbert L. Meyers of Myrtle Beach A.F.B. at wreck-in chatge of investigation.
- Star-News Image Archive
- Hydroplane in Banks Channel, Wrightsville Beach
- airplanes, Banks Channel, Wrightsville Beach, hydroplanes, seaplanes
- Hydroplane in Banks Channel, Wrightsville Beach
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- Carolina Apartments
- apartment buildings, Wilmington, NC
- The Carolina Apartments building at the corner of Market and 5th Streets.
- Star-News Image Archive
- Claude Howell's Apartment (2)
- artists, apartment buildings, Wilmington, NC
- Living and entertainment area in the home of Claude Howell, Carolina Apartments.
- Star-News Image Archive