Colonial Revival style house built for Annie Harrison Winstead (1880-1957), widow, Wilmington public school teacher for thirty-five years. Remained in family until 1974.
churches, First Presbyterian Church, Third Street, Orange Street
The First Presbyterian Church has been plagued by at least three fires in its history. Dating from 1818, the first church was located in the 100 block of South Front Street between Dock and Orange streets. It burned in 1819 and another church was...
Wilmington, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, North Carolina, churches, denominations, hotels, Wrightsville Beach, Intracoastal Waterway, priests, chalices
The Very Reverend Michael Karloutsos (front) from St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church (608 S. College Rd.) blesses some of the boats on the Blockade Runner dock in Banks Channel. The other 2 ministers are Reverend Robert Cook from St. James...
Custom House, Waterfront, Cape Fear River, Tugboat, Stone Towing Company
Cape Fear River - Looking south along harbor line from the dock in front of the U.S. Customs House.
Tugboat, on left, was owned by the Stone Towing Company.
Two freighters are tied up at an unidentified dock on the waterfront. The freighter at left is from Japan (note, flag). Inscription on back: "Cargo from west coast."
Custom House, Coast Guard, Modoc, Waterfront, Cape Fear River
U.S. Custom House, 1916 (now known as the Alton A. Lennon Federal Building after a former U.S. Congressman from North Carolina’s Seventh Congressional District).
A U. S. Custom House has been on this site (Water Street, north, between Market and...
Confederate, Union, Civil War, hospitals, downtown, S. Front Street, Dock Street
City Seamen's Friend Society Building, 1857, SW corner of Front and Dock Streets. It was a Confederate Base Hospital during Civil War, and later was the Union Hospital after the capture of Wilmington.
Craftsman style house built for Mark H.P. Clark, dentist; and wife, Sallie W. (1868-1920). Purchased in 1933 by John Angelo Ponos (1891-1960), native of Turkey, proprietor of the New York Cleaners and Hatters; and wife, Anastasia Gardelis...