Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, 5th and Market St., historic homes, historical district, tourist attractions
Guests at the Bellamy Mansion, which included Jim Burns and Ben MacDonald, line up and enter at the front door for a tour of the antebellum house as part of a fund raiser for the mansion restoration.
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, community colleges, CFCC, trade schools, Front Street
Henry Sloan, wearing lab coat and ball cap (in center) instructs some of the students in his advanced masonry class at CFTI. Students are laying various cinder block and brick walls. One female student builds a wall on the right side of the room.
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, department stores, clothing stores, dress shops, Independence Mall, Westfield Mall, models, suits
Scaffolding is in front of the closed glass doors at the inside mall entrance of Belk's. A ladder is seen inside the store among the female mannequins in the ladies department of Belk's.
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, fund raisers, 5th and Market St., historical district, antebellum architecture
Mrs. Emma Bellamy Williamson Hendren, ( in winter doublebreasted coat and purse) of the Bellamy Mansion, Inc. stands in front of the ornate wrought iron gates and fencing as the historic house looms in the background.
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, guest houses, historic buildings, downtown,
An old building at 7 S. 2nd St.( an original brick street) near the corner of Market and 2nd Streets is the proposed site of a bed & breakfast. Today this site contains Courtyard Developers, which has "Diamond Feed Store" painted on front of...
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Historic district, historical houses, John D. Bellamy, slave quarters, museum, tourist attraction, antebellum architecture, tours
Photograph of the front of the Bellamy Mansion taken from across Market St. near the corner of 5th and Market St. House needs painting and repair work. A sign that says "Bellamy Mansion 1859 open" is attached to one of the large white colums near...
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, military, reservists, Navy, Greenfield Lake, servicemen
The front of the U.S. Army Reserve training center on West Lake Shore DR. Two unidentified men, one soldier and one civilian, standing by the flag pole with the flag at full mast. Now known as the Adrian B. Rhodes Armed Forces Reserve Center, 2144...
The still intact, ACL Railroad building at Front and Red Cross Streets in 1960. Parking lot in foreground showing 2 men wearing hard hats as well as by-standers looking toward the building. Two trucks and 2 cars are parked in the lot.
Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, Antique cars, Wrightsville Sound
Image is the front view of the hunting lodge of Pembroke Jones. The lodge was an Italianate villa which was lavishly furnished. The property was designed as Pembroke Park. Today the park is the gated communty of Landfall.
Daisy Lovering stands in front of a brick and stone building in a portrait taken by Nashville photographer Duncan Doris. Lovering's autograph is on the back of the portrait. Lovering (1869-1950), aunt to Helen Lovering, was an actress who...
Joni Cox, Denise Squires, and Renee Casella (left to right) line up in front of the judges at the Atlantic Physique Championship at Kenan Auditorium at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Banks Channel, Oceanic, Hotels, Coast Guard
Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North Carolina Banks, a chain of barrier islands, which spans almost all of the North...
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Lumina, Lumina Pavilion
A large gathering on the beach in front of Lumina. Note movie screen on left.
Wrightsville Beach was named for Joshua Grainger Wright (1758-1811) who owned a vast amount of acreage along the sounds and the coast. The beach is a part of the North...
Wrightsville Beach, Beaches, Lumina, Lumina Pavilion, Race
A crowd watches a foot race on the beach in front of Lumina.
In 1901, the beach car line from Wilmington to Wrightsville Beach was sold by the Wilmington and Seacoast Railroad to the Consolidated Railways, Light and Power Company (later the...
Ocean Avenue is no longer there, lost to severe beach erosion. The cottages on either side of the Moore cottage were burned in the devastating fire of 1934, which destroyed all of the buildings on the northern extension. Note the typical wicker...