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    • 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...
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    • John C. Bailey House

    • John C. Bailey House
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    • Italianate style house built for John C. Bailey (1818-1880), native of Norway, patternmaker and partner in Hart & Bailey, Iron and Brass Foundry; and wife, Elizabeth Ann Rundlett (1817-1900), native of Vermont. Purchased in 1941 by Samuel C. Kellam...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Forshee-Sprunt House

    • Forshee-Sprunt House
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    • Italianate style house built for James M. Forshee, native of Philadelphia and partner in Kenan & Forshee, commission merchants; and wife, Sallie M. Extensively remodeled in 1920 by J. Laurence Sprunt (1866 - 1973), cotton broker; and wife, Annie...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Baldwin-Latimer-Jordan House

    • Baldwin-Latimer-Jordan House
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    • Italianate style house built for Albert M. Baldwin (1845-1934), dentist; and wife, Bettie S. Mitchell (1847-1888). Enlarged and remodeled by Edward S. Latimer (1857-1901), attorney; and wife, Anne Huske (1860-1934). Hettie James Jordan (1869-1941)...
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    • Honnet House

    • Honnet House
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    • Italianate style house built on Sunset Hill by George Honnet (1843-1913), native of Baltimore, jeweler and watchmaker; and wife, Marie Otterbourg (1848-1913). Colossal Neoclassical portico added in 1914 by son, George (1880-1962), a jeweler. House...
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    • Grant-Howell House

    • Grant-Howell House
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    • Italianate style house built for James Grant (1818-1892), merchant and native of Lenoir Co.; and wife, Keziah Stephens (1820-1893). Purchased in 1868 by Andrew J. Howell (1829-1911). Eastern one third of house demolished in 1913. Home of Rev....
    • Port City Architecture
    • W.I. Gore House

    • W.I. Gore House
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    • Italianate style house built as residence by William Iredell Gore (1829-1903); and wife, Rachael Litchfield (1833-1914). He was a wholesale grocer, commission merchant and during the Civil War, an officer in the Waccamaw Light Artillery. Saved...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Benjamin W. Beery House

    • Benjamin W. Beery House
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    • Italianate style house built for Benjamin Washington Beery (1822-1892), partner in Cassidey & Beery Shipyard; and wife, Ann Eliza Williams (1827-1865). Served as school and convent of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy, 1869-1870. Double piazzas added by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Jones-Mitchell House

    • Jones-Mitchell House
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    • Built for Jane Jones (1786-1855), this house was remodeled in the Italianate style during the ownership of Benjamin F. Mitchell (1812-1894); and wife, Sarah Swann (1813-1881). A native of Maine, he was a partner in the firm of Mitchell and...
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    • Hansen House

    • Hansen House
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    • Italianate style house, with Steamboat Gothic decoration, built for Ludvig Hansen (1850-1921), native of Denmark; and wife, Augusta G. (1860-1918). Hansen was a ship chandler and President of Spiritine Chemical Co. Saved for preservation by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Purnell-Empie House

    • Purnell-Empie House
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    • Italianate style house built for Eliza Ann Purnell (1822-1890), eldest daughter of Governor Edward B. Dudley. Purchased in 1857 by Adam Empie, Jr. (1821-1877), attorney; and wife, Virginia Gwathmey (1830-1917), who added the north wing. Remained...
    • Port City Architecture
    • McRae-Willard House

    • McRae-Willard House
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    • Italianate Cubical Cottage, in the Tuscan Style, built for Duncan K. MacRae (1820-1888), native of Fayetteville, lawyer, politician, foreign diplomat, orator and Confederate Colonel. Purchased in 1866 by Albert A. Willard (1828-1902), native of MA,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • King-Meares House

    • King-Meares House
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    • Italianate style house built in 1872 by Charles H. King (1849-1909), partner in naval stores concern of Robinson & King; and wife, Mary J. Purchased in 1895 by Judge Oliver P. Meares (1828-1906); and wife, Ann Eliza Wright (1828-1900); remained in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Mary Jane Langdon House

    • Mary Jane Langdon House
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    • Italianate style house built for Mary Jane Halsey Langdon (1799-1883), widow of Samuel Langdon (1786-1832), merchant, to replace residence that burned. Inherited by granddaughter Jane Young (1849-1930), and husband, Thomas D. Meares, C.S.A....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Larkins House

    • Larkins House
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    • Family residence of William Larkins (1829-1891), Wilmington native, wholesale grocer & liquor dealer, cashier of First National Bank, and rice planter. House sold in 1903 to Samuel Behrends, merchant and furniture store owner, in whose family it...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Henry Latimer House

    • Henry Latimer House
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    • Italianate style dwelling built for Henry G. Latimer (1845-1929); and wife, Carrie. Mr. Latimer was a merchant and co-founder of Acme Manufacturing Company. House owned by Mary Hargrave Kenan (1842-1916) and heirs from 1903-1935.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Latimer House

    • Latimer House
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    • Italianate style house built for Zebulon Latimer (1810-1881), native of Glastonbury, Connecticut, commission merchant; and wife, Elizabeth Savage (1819-1904). Remained in family unitl 1963 when purchased by the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Latimer-Waddell House

    • Latimer-Waddell House
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    • Italianate style house built for William Latimer (1852-1923), industrialist. In 1886 deeded to Ellen Savage (1842-1898), second wife of Alfred Moore Waddell (1834-1912), U. S. Congressman, Mayor of Wilmington, orator and historian. Purchased in...
    • Port City Architecture

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