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    • Harriss House

    • Harriss House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for Andrew Howell Harriss (1872-1956), physician and surgeon; and wife, Mary Bolles (1875-1967), native of Southport, NC. Dr. Harriss served in the Spanish American and First World Wars. Two-story porch added in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Mitchell-Anderson House

    • Mitchell-Anderson House
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    • Oldest surviving structure in Wilmington, Georgian style house built for Edward Mitchell (c. 1744), native of Charleston, SC, carpenter and planter. Purchased in 1828 by Thomas F. Davis (1778-1846), clerk of New Hanover County Court. Inherited in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Wright-Murchison House

    • Wright-Murchison House
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    • Italianate style house owned by Lucy Wright Murchison Giles (1850-1913); later owned by her daughter, Lucile Wright Murchison (1880-1968); became residence of Dr. and Mrs. David R. Murchison in 1927.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Wiggins House

    • Wiggins House
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    • Queen Anne style house built as investment property for siblings Octavius Augustus Wiggins (1879-1934), foreman for Hilton Lumber Company; Elizabeth Wiggins Price (1873-1965), wife of Dr. Richard Jones Price; Mary Wiggins Davis (1882-1959), wife of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bellamy Mansion Negro House

    • Bellamy Mansion Negro House
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    • Italianate style dependency built to house as many as nine slaves of Dr. John D. Bellamy, and wife, Eliza McIlhenny Harriss. After the Civil War, servants lived here. A rare example of an intact urban slave quarters, the outbuilding includes...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Michael Hooper House

    • Michael Hooper House
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    • House built for Michael Hooper (1830-1877), lamplighter and drayman; and wife, Julia A. (1841-1906). He was founder of Wilmington's Emancipation Day Celebration in 1874. The Structure was altered to Neoclassical Revival style in c. 1902 when...
    • 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
    • Mount Lebanon Chapel

    • Mount Lebanon Chapel
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    • Greek Revival style church built for St. James Episcopal Parish on land owned by Dr. Thomas H. Wright (1800-1861). In 1912, Gothic style elements added by Pembroke Jones (1858-1919) on the occasion of the marriage of daughter Sadie Green Jones...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Chadbourn House

    • Chadbourn House
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    • Built by James H. Chadbourn for his daughter, Frances Chadbourn, who married Dr. Jack Stanley, dentist. Robert Ruark (1915-1965), newspaper journalist and novelist, spent part of his childhood here.
    • Port City Architecture
    • J.O. Hinton House

    • J.O. Hinton House
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    • Neo-Classical Revival style house built as investment property for James Oscar Hinton (1873-1952), manager of City Laundry; and wife, Estelle Shepherd (1875-1960). The second story was added in the late 1920s during the ownership of the Rev....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Elbert Anderson

    • Dr. Elbert Anderson

    • Anderson family, Sykes family, Roberts family, Stovacs family, physicians

    • Dr. Elbert Carl Anderson (1911-), son of John and Maggie Sykes Anderson, was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, April 28th, 1911. He married Miss Mildred Roberts (deceased) and married his second wife, Miss Martha Stovacs. He received his M.D....
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Robert J. Andrews

    • Dr. Robert J. Andrews

    • Andrews family, physicians, medicine

    • Dr. Robert Jackson Andrews (1921-), was born January 21, 1921 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He attended UNC Chapel Hill from 1943-44 and the University of Tennesse, Memphis, in 1946. His parents were Vernon and Edna Hall Andrews and he married...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Avant in His Flower Garden

    • Dr. Avant in His Flower Garden

    • Avant family, Physicians, African-Americans, medicine, Red Cross St.

    • Dr. Avant shown in his Flower Garden at his Home on Red Cross St. Dr. Frank W. Avant was born in Smithville (Southport), North Carolina. Dr. Avant attended Howard University (1896); Lincoln University, PA (1898), and Leonard Pharmaceutical School,...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03073

    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03073

    • Azalea Festival

    • Photograph of Esther Williams from the 1958 Azalea Festival. Williams was Azalea Queen XI for the festival that ran from March 27-30. Notable celebrities also made appearances during the festival that year including Andy Griffith, Arnold Palmer,...
    • Azalea Festival Collection
    • Babies Hospital, Wrightsville Sound.

    • Babies Hospital, Wrightsville Sound.

    • Babies Hospital, Hospitals, Wrightsville Sound

    • Nurses and small patients, posing on the hospital grounds. Founded on June 6, 1920 by Dr. J. Buren Sidbury (1864-1967), the original wooden building of the pediatric hospital burned in 1927. The Mediterranean style replacement is shown before a...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Babies Hospital - Wrightsville Sound.

    • Babies Hospital - Wrightsville Sound.

    • Babies Hospital, Hospitals, Wrightsville Sound

    • Dr. J. Buren Sidbury (864-1967), founder of the pediatric hospital, with his nursing staff in front of the original frame hospital building. The structure burned in 1927 and was replaced with a Mediterranean style structure.
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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