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    • Bachelor Auction Winning Bid

    • Bachelor Auction Winning Bid

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Wrightsville Ave., auctions, charities, bachelorette, radio stations, WGNI, crowd, audience

    • Peter Fensel, in tuxedo jacket and satin pants, reacts postitively as he is bid off to the highest paying female during Friday night's Bid for Bachelors at the Galleria near Wrightsville Beach. Auctioneer D.C. North leads his unidentified date to...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Owens House

    • Owens House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built for Charles W. Owens (1895-1968), civil engineer; and wife, Dollie Braxton (1899-1991). Purchased in 1938 by Robert P. Huffman, veterinarian and County Health Department food and dairy inspector for thirty years. ...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Avant House & Office

    • Dr. Avant House & Office
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    • Colonial Revival style house and office built for Frank W. Avant (1876-1973), physician, native of Southport; and wife, Florence L. Nichols (1887-1962), native of Newark, NJ. He was a founder of Community Hospital, president of the New Hanover...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Vollers-Hardin-Walker House

    • Vollers-Hardin-Walker House
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    • Queen Anne style house built by and for Louis Henry Vollers (1862-1943), native of Point Caswell, building contractor; and wife, Susan A. Barnhhill (1862-1942). Purchased in 1900 by John Haywood Hardin (1853-1932), native of Washington, D.C.,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Coast Guard

    • Coast Guard

    • U.S. Coast Guard, Vietnam, The Mendota, Willard J. Smith

    • A U.S. Coast Guard cutter docks in Wilmington after returning from a 10-month tour of duty off of the coast of Vietnam. The Mendota was based out of Wilmington since 1947. Coast Guard families, locals, and dignitaries including Coast Guard...
    • Wilmington Harbor Collection
    • Dr. Calvin MacKay

    • Dr. Calvin MacKay

    • MacKay family, Plymette family, physicians

    • Dr. James Calvin Mackay (1924-), son of William Henry, M.D., and Florence Gompers McKay, was born in Washington, D.C., May 3rd, 1924. He married Miss Shirley Plymette and attended Cornell University (1944) and Bowman Gray (1947). He was in private...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. George Koseruba

    • Dr. George Koseruba

    • Koseruba family, physicians, Pediatricians

    • Dr. George M. Koseruba was the son of a Russian couple who immigrated to Canada. He attended Southern California's Loma Linda University where he earned his M.D. He came to Wilmington in 1939 and served his internship and first year residency at...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Portrait of James Walker, Architect

    • Portrait of James Walker, Architect

    • Walker family, Architects, Builders, Philanthropists, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, portraiture

    • This portrait of James Walker can be found hanging on a wall at UNC-Wilmington. James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason, then later moved to...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Portrait of James Walker

    • Portrait of James Walker

    • Walker family, Architects, builders, philanthropists, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, portraits

    • Portrait of James Walker now hanging on wall at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother, at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason,...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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