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    • Orton Billard & Pool Rooms

    • Orton Billard & Pool Rooms
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    • Basement is the only surviving section of Orton Hotel which was built in 1886 for Col. Kenneth Murchison (1831-1906). Billiard and pool rooms, steam laundry, bakery, and bar room installed during the 1888 enlargement by W. A. Bryan, proprietor....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Sheehan-Davis House

    • Sheehan-Davis House
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    • Built as rental property for John Sheehan (1870-1912), superintendent of transportation, Tidewater Power Co.; and brother, William Sheehan (1859-1915), grocer; and Williamss wife, Mary Elder (1870-1954). Purchased in 1939 by Charles Henry Davis...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Cumming-Sneeden House

    • Cumming-Sneeden House
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    • Built as rental property for William McRary Cumming (1860-1922), native of Greensboro, NC, business executive and real estate investor. Converted to duplex in 1952 by Rudolph L. Lewis (1894-1978), hardware merchant. Purchased in 1965 by James F....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Elliott-Brown House

    • Elliott-Brown House
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    • Built by Mary Taylor Elliott (1835-1907), native of Fayetteville, NC; widow of William P. Elliott, merchant and co-owner of steamboat line. Earl Williams Brown (1909-1971), a Master Printer, owned the house from 1934 to 1971. Queen Anne style...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Gause-Bolles House

    • Gause-Bolles House
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    • 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
    • Charlotte Sampson Johnson House

    • Charlotte Sampson Johnson House
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    • Built for Charlotte Sampson (1838-1888), free black wife of John F. Johnson (d. 1864). Bequeathed to Thomas Wright Strange (1855-1899), city attorney and judge advocate. Used for rental income, the house remained in family for sixty-six years.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Canady House and Store

    • Canady House and Store
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    • Built for David R. Canady (1832-1921), retail grocer; and wife, Henrietta (1839-1921). Use as residence and store or saloon continued until after 1915. In 1909, bought by Robert H. Brady (1859-1936), builder and contractor, as rental property....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Telfair House

    • Telfair House
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    • Built for the Rev. James W. Telfair, Jr., (1837-1914), born in slavery, pastor of St. Stephen A.M.E. Church, presiding elder of the North Carolina Conference of the A.M.E. Church, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina Colored Masons,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Frederick J. Lord House

    • Frederick J. Lord House
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    • Built in the Italianate style as rental property for Frederick J. Lord (1803-1890), proprietor of Cape Fear Machine Works and Spanish vice-consul. Neoclassical Revival changes (brick veneer and porch) made by James Crocket Williams (1885-1943),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Forest Hills School

    • Forest Hills School
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    • Built to consolidate East Wilmington, Kirkland, Middle Sound and Masonboro schools. With rapid development of Forest Hills, it became the neighborhood school. The original one-story building contained seven classrooms, an auditorium and a library....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Fisher House

    • Fisher House
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    • Bungalow built as investment property for W.P. McGlaughon. Purchased in 1924 by Hervey Taylor Fisher (1883-1931), native of Fayetteville, NC, and auditor for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; and wife, Lula Suggs (1885-1968), native of Kinston, NC....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Platt-Slocumb House

    • Platt-Slocumb House
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    • California Bungalow built for John Edward Platt (1878-1951), automobile dealer; and wife, Elizabeth Daisy Thees (1881-1956). Purchased in 1925 by John Charles Slocumb (1881-1941), native of Goldsboro, NC, bookkeeper and manager with Alexander...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Harrison-Norden House

    • Harrison-Norden House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built as investment property for Thomas Wesley Harrison (1878-1955), president of A. D. Brown & Co., dry goods. Purchased in 1939 by Eric Norden (1869-1946), native of Sweden, civil engineer and map maker; and wife,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Hopkins House

    • Hopkins House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Benjamin T. Hopkins (1870-1961), native of Accomac, VA and district manager of Life Insurance Company of Virginia; and wife, Josephine Kelley (1874-1953), native of New Jersey. Purchased in 1959 by Edwin B....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Frederick Pearsall House

    • Frederick Pearsall House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Frederick Leon Pearsall (1875-1845), officer and co-owner of Pearsall and Company, fertilizer manufacturers; and wife, Mary Christian McArtan (1877-1953), native of Cumberland County, NC. Frederick was an...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Allen-Collier House

    • Allen-Collier House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Fulton Temple Allen (1868-1941), secretary-treasurer of Acme Fertilizer Company; and wife, Anna Bell Pearce (1870-1948), natives of Virginia. Purchased in 1963 by Joshua Frank Collier (1902-1965), realtor,...
    • Port City Architecture

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