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    • King-Dannenbaum House

    • King-Dannenbaum House
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    • Prairie style house built for Joseph T. King (1871-1920), native of Bladen County, General Superintendent of Transpotation for Atalntic Coast Line Railroad; and wife, Hattie Mahn (1873-1940). Purchased in 1918 by Rosa Josephson (1860-1940), native...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Elizabeth Vollers House

    • Elizabeth Vollers House
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    • Queen Anne style house built as rental property for Elizabeth Hashagen Vollers (1840-1907), native of Blumenthal, Hannover, Germany; widow of Luhr Vollers (1833-1895), native of Spaden, Haannover, Germany and partner in Vollers & Hashagen,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Henry T. Duls House

    • Henry T. Duls House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for Henry Thedor Duls, Sr. (1862-1934), native of Paddewisch, Germany, retail grocer; and wife, Lille Adelaide Haar (1870-1945), native of Worpswede, Germany. Remained in family until 1967.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Oakdale Cemetery.

    • Oakdale Cemetery.

    • Oakdale Cemetery, Cemeteries, Duls

    • Henry T. Duls family plot (Sec 0, Lot #11). Henry Duls (1862-1934) was a native of Paddewisch, Province of Hannover, Germany. He married Lillie A. Haar (1870-1945) in St. Paul's Lutheran Church in1896, who was a native of Worpswede, Hannover,...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Adrian House

    • Adrian House
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    • Alrich Adrian (1834-1897); and wife, Christine Fraas (1850-1937), natives of Germany, built the Tuscan Villa style house in 1875. Adrian was a city alderman and co-owner of Adrian & Vollers, wholesale grocery. The Z.W. Whitehead family owned the...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Fanning House

    • Fanning House
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    • Italianate style house built for Phineas Wines Fanning (1799-1880), native of Nantucket, MA; house, ship and sign painter, Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina from 1844 to 1846. Purchased in 1883 by Joseph Newman (1810-1887), native of Kingdom...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Heide-Futch House

    • Heide-Futch House
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    • Neen; and wife, Catherine Exum (1834-1891). Purchased in 1898 by John W. H. Fuchs (1871-1938), grocer and proprietor of Futchs Department Store; and wife, Mary C. M. Strunck (1873-1932), natives of Germany, who Americanized their surname to...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Baptist Hill House

    • Baptist Hill House
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    • A Baptist meeting house occupied this site as early as 1825. Front Street Baptist Church was constructed here in 1837 and served the congregation until 1866. Converted to residence when sold to John F. Stolter (1840-1903) and John M. Bremer...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Yopp-Goodman House

    • Yopp-Goodman House
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    • Italianate style house built for William John Yopp (1824-1888), Wilmington & Weldon Railroad freight agent; and wife; Jane Warren (1834-1868). Rear addition, c. 1870. Purchased in 1888 by William (1832-1911) and Bernhardt (1849-1913) Goodman,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • deRosset House

    • deRosset House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for Armand John deRosset (1808-1897), physician and merchant; and wife, Eliza Jane Lord (1812-1876). They added the northeast wing in 1854 and the Italianate cornice and conservatory in 1874. Purchased in 1882 by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Kuck House

    • Kuck House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for John Henry Kuck (1865-1947), grocer, ships store merchant, owner of Wilmington Hosiery Mills; and wife, Dena Dorothy Bokelmann (1875-1965). They were natives of Hannover, Germany. Remained in family until 1948....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Ahrens Building

    • Ahrens Building
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    • Neoclassical Revival style commercial building commissioned by Benjamin H.J. Ahrens (1844-1912), native of Germany, grocer, for sons Eduard (1876-1961), and Adolph G. (1882-1953), who operated Ahrens Brothers Wholesale Drug Company here for...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Mahler House

    • Mahler House
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    • Craftsman style two family dwelling built for Carl Peter Barthold Mahler (1874-1956), real estate and rental agent, and wife Meta Brunjes (1868-1957), during their ownership of the DeRosset property to the west. Natives of Germany, they lived here...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Munds Drug Store

    • Munds Drug Store
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    • Commercial building constructed as rental property for Solomon (1832-1904), Samuel (1837-1903) and Marcus (1843-1887) Bear, natives of Bavaria, Germany, and dry goods merchants. Remained in Bear family until 1985. James Dickinson Munds (1855-1893)...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Mahler Office

    • Mahler Office
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    • Built as real estate office by Carl Peter Barthold Mahler (1874-1956), realtor, builder. Rented after c.1917 to a succession of small businesses. Mahler and wife. Meta Brunjes (1868-1957), natives of Hannover, Germany, lived in the deRosset house...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Shrier Building

    • Shrier Building
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    • Commercial building constructed as rental property for Isaac Shrier (1841-1920), native of Germany, clothier and real estate investor; and wife, Betsy Willner (1850-1916), native of Austria. Rented by various tenants, including the Telegraph-Cable...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Andrew Smith House

    • Andrew Smith House
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    • Italianate style house built for Andrew Smith (1849-1907). A native of Sweden, he was a partner in Smith & Hanson, ship chandlers. Later engaged in real estate and brick manufacture. His wife, Lisette Miller (1853-1930), was a native of Hannover,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Kahnweiler-Duls House

    • Kahnweiler-Duls House
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    • Italianate style house built as investment for David Kahnweiler (1827-1899), dry goods merchant and inventor of cotton seed huller; and wife, Mina (b. 1840), natives of Bavaria. After successive owners it was purchased in 1904 as rental property by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Radcliffe House

    • Radcliffe House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for Elizabeth Radcliffe (1798-1862), widow of Timothy D. Radcliffe (1783-1843). Purchased as residence in 1863 by Herman H. Bloom (1827-1896), retail grocer; and wife Anna E. (1825-1886), natives of Germany. Rental...
    • Port City Architecture

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