New Hanover County Public Library Digital Archives

Portrait of James Walker, Architect
Walker family, Architects, Builders, Philanthropists, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, portraiture
This portrait of James Walker can be found hanging on a wall at UNC-Wilmington. James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason, then later moved to...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Graveside Marker, James Walker, Oakdale Cemetery
Walker Family, Cemeteries, Wilmington, Architects, Builders, Gravestones
James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother, at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason, then later moved to Washington D.C. to help work on the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institute,...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Portrait of James Walker
Walker family, Architects, builders, philanthropists, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, portraits
Portrait of James Walker now hanging on wall at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. James Walker, (1826-1901) was born in Scotland and came to the U.S. (New York), with his brother, at the age of 12. He started out as a stone mason,...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

South Third Street - 200 block; Orange Street - 200 block.
Latimer House, S. Third Street, Orange Street
The Henry Latimer House (1883), with its mansard roof, is on the left on the southwest corner of Third and Orange streets. It appears in the photograph that the house has a front porch across the front, which must have been removed at a later date....
Louis T. Moore Collection

South Third Street - 100 block; intersection of Third and Orange streets.
Latimer House, First Presbyterian Church, S. Third Street, Orange Street
At left on the northwest corner is the Zebulon Latimer House; and, at right is the First Presbyterian Church, rebuilt after a fire destroyed the sanctuary in 1926. The First Presbyterian Church has been plagued by at least three fires in its...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Tillie in front of Tileston School
Tileston School, Schools, S. Fourth Street, Ann Street
Tillie, a Bellamy family slave, later lived over the old kitchen at the Burgwin-Wright House. St. Mary's Catholic Pro-Cathedral is in the background. The original school building in the middle of the block was constructed in 1871-1872 with funds...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Carolina Beach - Street scene.
Carolina Beach, Carolina Beach Hotel, Bame's Hotel, Cape Fear Boulevard
Carolina Beach Hotel, later Bame's Hotel, was located on Cape Fear Boulevard. Street scene shows vintage autos. 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...
Louis T. Moore Collection

North Front Street - View from the Atlantic Trust Building, Northeast corner, Front and Market streets, looking north.
Front Street, Market Street, Atlantic Trust Building, Murchison Building, Masonic Building
General view of North Front Street. Prominent buildings from left are: top of Masonic Building, Atlantic National Bank Building (later People's Bank), Side of Orton Hotel (see sign), Murchison Building, Tower and top of Post Office and the Cape...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Aerial View of Kure Beach
North Carolina, New Hanover County, highway 421, Atlantic, industry
This is the ocean intake for the Ethyl Dow Chemical Co. which closed in 1945. The plant took bromine out of the seawater to use in making anti-knock gasoline. Years later the LaQue Center set up their corrosion testing operation at this location...
Star-News Image Archive

Bald Head Island Motel
North Carolina, Brunswick County,beaches, resorts
Photograph is an aerial view of the Bald Head Inn. Sandbags line the edge of the property to protect the Inn from the Atlantic Ocean. The Inn later lost it's battle to erosion and the structure was taken down.
Star-News Image Archive

Little Miss Wilmington Pageant
New Hanover County, North Carolina, Beauty contests, pageants, clubs, organizations, officers
Sandy Cyphers, Bladen County native and president of the Wilmington Jaycee women and later 1st woman president of the Wilmington Jaycees, in a backstage dressing room sprays hair spray on contestant Jamie Cyndra McGee, as she gets ready for the...
Star-News Image Archive

Paddlewheel Ship H.G. Wright
Wilmington, New Hanover county, North Carolina, boats, steam-powered, Army Corps of Engineers, snag boat
Left to right, Leslie Bright, state underwater archaeologist, Jerry Dunn, volunteer, and Dave Carnell, chairman of the board of directors of the New Hanover Co. museum work to raise the workings of the paddlewheel ship the H.G. Wright from the edge...
Star-News Image Archive

Gause-Bolles House
Built by Samuel P. Gause (1818-1875), a Wilmington merchant. Sold in 1863 to John Van Sickle (1808-1869), tobacconist. After death of his widow Anna, in 1870, house sold at public auction to Mary McRee Walker Hill. In 1887, it passed to her heir,...
Port City Architecture

Masonic Hall
Third building constructed to house St.. Johns Lodge No. 1, A.F. & A.M. Until 1899 third floor used by several masonic lodges. Receptions held here for Henry Clay (1844), Daniel Webster (1847), and President James K. Polk (1849). Public Hall on...
Port City Architecture

Price-Leiner House
Neoclassical Revival style house built for Willie Ann Wood Price (1857-1931), widow of William P. Price (1853-1904). Purchased in 1919 by Ludwig Leiner (1862-1951); and wife, Katie Stuart Burriss (1880-1970). A native of Bavaria, he served in the...
Port City Architecture

Robert R. Bellamy Building
Commercial structure built as rental property for Robert R. Bellamy (1861-1926), owner of wholesale drug business and officer of Delgado Cotton Mills. Originally constructed as a boot and shoe store; later occupied by clothing stores and jewelers....
Port City Architecture

Munds Drug Store
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

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