Post Office Park, N. Second Street, Chestnut Street, Cape Fear Hotel, American Legion Hut, Ducks
With their rifles, three hunters display their dead ducks in Post Office Park. At left is the corner of the American Legion Hut and the Cape Fear Hotel is in the background. The American Legion Hut was first in Post Office Park. It was later, moved...
Post Office Park, N. Second Street, Chestnut Street, Cape Fear Hotel, American Legion Hut, Ducks
With their rifles, three hunters display their dead ducks in Post Office Park. At left is the corner of the American Legion Hut and the Cape Fear Hotel is in the background. The American Legion Hut was first in Post Office Park. It was later, moved...
The massive yellow brick building was built 1920-1922 by W. J. Wilkins & Co.,Architects. The building formally replaced Wilmington High School, which was located in the Tileston School building at Fifth and Ann streets. In 1922, with an enrollment...
On the north side of Wilmington, the World's Largest Living Christmas Tree, photographed in the snow.
For many years, Wilmington's community Christmas tree was erected at the entrance to City Hall on Third Street. In the fall of 1928, James E. L....
An Easter Egg hunt held at Greenfield. An item in the Wilmington News, 5 April 1934, reported that the public egg hunt was sponsored by the Wilmington Lions Club. Photographs of the "throng of 2,000 children" were taken by Louis T. Moore...
An Easter Egg hunt held at Greenfield. An item in the Wilmington News, 5 April 1934, reported that the public egg hunt was sponsored by the Wilmington Lions Club. Photographs of the "throng of 2,000 children" were taken by Louis T. Moore...
For many years, Wilmington's community Christmas tree was erected at the entrance to City Hall on Third Street. In the fall of 1928, James E. L. Wade (1889- 1980), a city commissioner, came up with the idea to have a living Christmas tree. A...
S. Front Street, Nun Street, Sprunt, Governor Edward B. Dudley Mansion,
The imposing mansion on the corner of Front and Nun streets has been the home of several prominent families. The house is thought to have been constructed about 1825 by Governor Dudley (1789-1855). In 1836, he became the first popularly elected...
An Easter Egg hunt held at Greenfield. An item in the Wilmington News, 5 April 1934, reported that the public egg hunt was sponsored by the Wilmington Lions Club. Photographs of the "throng of 2,000 children" were taken by Louis T. Moore...
A float in a parade in the 100 block of North Third Street. The Wilmington City Hall, Courthouse Tower, St. James Episcopal Church Tower and the spire of the First Presbyterian Church are shown in the background. During the festival, George...
An Easter Egg hunt held at Greenfield. An item in the Wilmington News, 5 April 1934, reported that the public egg hunt was sponsored by the Wilmington Lions Club. Photographs of the "throng of 2,000 children" were taken by Louis T. Moore...
Just after the Civil War, the American Unitarian Association and the Soldiers
Memorial Society of Boston sent Miss Amy Morris Bradley (1823-1904) to Wilmington to take charge of a school called "the Wilmington Mission." After arriving in...
To begin Feast of Pirates celebrations, a “pirate ship,” flying the scull and crossbones (pictured here) rounded a bend in the Cape Fear River and prepared to “capture” Wilmington. After doing “battle” with the Coast Guard cutter,...
Fire truck in the boardwalk area. The pavilion is on the left side of photo with the city hall on the right.
Carolina Beach is located on the Federal Point peninsula, bounded on the west by the Cape Fear River, and on the east and south by the...
St. James Episcopal Church, Third Street, Market Street, Carolina Apartments, Colonial Apartments
St. James Episcopal Church is at the center, with the tower of the church's Great Hall and Carolina Apartments in the distance. At left is the Colonial Apartments with its mansard roof. The top of the red brick YMCA building can be seen next to the...
According to the 1860 Wilmington City Directory, Shaddrack M. West (ca. 1810-1871) was living in the house on North Third Street, between Princess and Chestnut streets. The large three-story Italinate dwelling was built ca. 1858. On July 10, 1914,...
At left, on the corner of South Front and Orange Streets is the Stemmerman Building, formerly owned by Claus Stemmerman (1825-1892), a native of Beverstedt, Hannover, Germany. He operated a grocery store on this corner from 1860 until his death in...
The view is of the commercial district in the heart of downtown, roughly bounded by Market Street, North Second Street, North Fourth Street and Chestnut Street. Prominent buildings shown include City Hall, red brick courthouse, Colonial Apartments,...
Courthouse, Annex, Princess Street, N. Third Street
Leslie N. Boney of Wilmington, with Herbert C. Chivers of New York, consulting architect, designed the stone-faced Neo-classical Revival Annex. The cornerstone was laid on February 6, 1925 and the structure was completed later the same year. The...