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City Market - South Front Street - 100 block.
City Market, S. Front Street
Stall operators show off their wares in the interior of the market. The City Market at 120-124 South Front Street, was built in 1879-1880 by the Wilmington Market Company and was sold to the City of Wilmington in 1882. The building was a two-story...
Louis T. Moore Collection

City Market - 100 block, South Front Street
S. Front Street, City Market
The City Market at 120-124 South Front Street, was built in 1879-1880 by the Wilmington Market Company and was sold to the City of Wilmington in 1882. The building was a two-story structure, with two towers on Front Street. In 1919, the market...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Exchange Corner - Southwest corner Front and Market streets.
Exchange Corner, Front Street, Market Street, City Market, Finkelstein
From the eighteenth century, this corner was known as Exchange Corner, possibly because the original city market was located in the middle of Market Street, between Water and Front streets. In this photo, the building on the corner (at center) is...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Davis and Hintze Meat Market, 1900s
Davis and Hintze Meat Market, City Market, Front St., Water St.
Interior view of the Davis and Hintze Meat Market, located in the City Market between Front and Water Streets, showing a clerk and customer talking in the store
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

City Market
City Market, Market House, S. Front Street
An early postcard capturing the City Market (or Market House) on S. Front Street
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Old Market House
Market House, Market Street
Market House on Market Street between Front and Water Streets; Demolished in 1881
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

St. James Episcopal Church Great Hall - Market Street, 300 block.
St. James Episcopal Church, Church, Market Street, Great Hall
The photo was taken from the intersection of Fourth and Market streets and shows the Great Hall, which was built 1923-24. Hobart Upjohn of New York was the architect of the Gothic Revival building. St. James Graveyard is on the corner of Fourth and...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Market Street - 1100 block (north side) looking northeast.
Hughes Brothers, Market Street
Hughes Brothers, an automotive service station, was founded in 1921 at the corner of Second and Market streets by J. Winder Hughes (192-1987) and his brother James B. Hughes. The Art-Deco station was built at the Eleventh and Market location 1935....
Louis T. Moore Collection

Students pose in front of New Hanover High School, with Trinity Methodist Church in the background.
New Hanover High School, Schools, Market Street, Trinity Methodist Church, Churches
1300 block, Market Street, built 1920-1922, W. J. Wilkins, Architect. Wilmington High School, located in the Tileston School building at Fifth and Ann streets, was formerly replaced by New Hanover High School when the first classs graduated in...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Students pose in front of New Hanover High School, with Trinity Methodist Church in the background.
New Hanover High School, Schools, Market Street, Trinity Methodist Church, Churches
1300 block, Market Street, built 1920-1922, W. J. Wilkins, Architect. Wilmington High School, located in the Tileston School building at Fifth and Ann streets, was formerly replaced by New Hanover High School when the first classs graduated in...
Louis T. Moore Collection

View of New Hanover High School, Trinity Methodist Church and St. Andrews-Covenant Presbyterian Church from Pembroke Jones Park.
New Hanover High School, Schools, Trinity Methodist Church, Churches, St. Andrews- Covenant Presbyterian Church, Pembroke Jones Park, Market Street
Trinity Methodist Church was organized in August, 1889, as the Market Street Methodist Mission. The church met in Giblem Lodge at Eighth and Princess streets, but soon moved to a church at Ninth and Market streets. In 1920, the church hired Leslie...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Market Street, 300 block, north side of the street, between Third and Fourth streets.
Market Street, Third Street, Fourth Street, YMCA
At center is the red brick, four-story Y.M.C.A. Building, which was constructed in 1912-1913. This was the second home of the organization, which previously had occupied a structure on the northwest corner of North Front and Grace streets. The new...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Waterfront at Market Street
Cape Fear River, Waterfront, Market Street, Water Street
This b&w photograph captures the bustling atmosphere of the Wilmington's waterfront at Market Street. The store located at the northeast corner of Water and Market streets is that of Jacob Lyons.
Wilmington Harbor Collection

Wilmington Harbor
Cape Fear River, Waterfront, Market Street, Custom House, Ferry, Market House,
This line drawing captures a view of the ferry and ferry landing at Market and Water streets. Market Street on Wilmington's waterfront.
Wilmington Harbor Collection

4th and Market Streets, 1911
monuments, brownstones, churches, synogogues, Claude Howell, libraries
Intersection of Fourth and Market Streets looking East down Market St. In the center of Street is the Cornelius Harnett obelisk, the Temple of Israel (at right) is the oldest Jewish house of worship in N.C. At the end of the block (5th & Market)...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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