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    • 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
    • Thomas Smith House

    • Thomas Smith House
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    • Italianate style house built by Thomas H. Smith (1833-1887), grocer, native of England. Bought in 1892 by Rachel Letchfield Gore (1833-1914). Her son Albert Gore (1858-1895), merchant; and wife, Bessie Ledford (1865-1934), lived here. Bessie, who...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Rankin & Martin Warehouse

    • Rankin & Martin Warehouse
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    • Vernacular style warehouse built for Rankin & Martin, naval stores merchants. Purchased in 1889 by Burr & Bailey Ironworks. Acquired in 1902 by Wilmington Towing & Construction Company and occupied by W.B. Thorpe & Company, dealers in coal, wood...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Bob Williams

    • Dr. Bob Williams

    • Williams family, Martin family, physicians, emergency rooms, hospitals, medicine

    • Dr. Robert Wefer Williams (1921), son of Robert J. and Elsie Wefer Williams, was born January 27th, 1921, in New York, N.Y. He married Miss Isabel Martin and attended Harvard (1942) and Cornell Medical College, where he received his M.D. (1945). He...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Big Dawg Productions

    • Big Dawg Productions

    • Wilmington, Carolina Beach, New Hanover County, North Carolina, theater, film, television, stages, actors, actresses, plays, Thalian Hall

    • The cast from the play You Can't take it With You- top row-left to right- Alex Wharff (Tony Kirby), Scott Simpson (Boris Kolenkhov), bottom row- left to right- Katherine Vernon (Alice Sycamore), Pat Higle (Martin "Grandpa" Vanderhof, Suellen Yate...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Boathouse repairs

    • Boathouse repairs

    • New Hanover County, North Carolina, businesses, Wilmington

    • Mr. Jerry Childers welds on stainless steel as Ronnie Ferguson turns his head. The two work for G.H. Martin Boathouse and Docks of Gainesville, Georgia. They were working on an anchor piece that will hold a boathouse in place at the Unocal...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • D & E Car Exchange

    • D & E Car Exchange

    • automobile dealers, cars, businesses

    • This photograph captures the grand opening of the D & E Car Exchange on April 24, 1972 on Market Street in Wilmington, N.C. Pictured are R. Zimmerman, Jimmy Metts, Jimmy Flynn, L. E. LaMarsh, J. G. Slim Dubose, Martin Dubose, and Mrs. Edith...
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Girls and Boys on a Fence

    • Girls and Boys on a Fence

    • children, clubs, Wilmington, NC

    • (L to R): Christy Leonard, Meri Martin, Jason Cannady and Michael Naylor on the old fence near the pool at the Brigade Boys Club which is fixing to be changed to include girls also.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Gore-Martin House

    • Gore-Martin House
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    • Cottage built as rental property for Rachel Litchfield Gore (1933-1914), native of Beaufort, SC. Purchased as rental property in 1912 by Cuthbert Martin (1875-1922), president-treasurer Peoples Supply Company; and wife, Bessie Ledford Gore...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Gwaltney-Martin House

    • Gwaltney-Martin House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Robert Howell Gwaltney (1878-1939), native of Raleigh, NC, manager of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance, Co.; and wife, Octavia Boatwright (1880-1964). Purchased in 1914 by Eugene Stuart Martin...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Morse-Willard-Rhodes House

    • Morse-Willard-Rhodes House
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    • Front section of house built on adjacent lot by Christopher C. Morse (1824-1891), grocer. Moved and enlarged in Queen Anne style for Martin Stevenson Willard (1858-1933), insurance agent and president of Willard Bag and Manufacturing Company. ...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Runge-Fales House

    • Runge-Fales House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for Gerhardt Henry William Runge (1828-1876), grocer and saloon keeper; and wife, Johanna H. Eckel (1836-1920), natives of Hannover, Germany. Purchased in 1922 by James Benjamin Franklin Fales (1859-1925), owner of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Martin-Huggins House

    • Martin-Huggins House
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    • Built by Alfred Martin (1812-1897), merchant, as his family residence. Later occupied by Captain John Newland Maffitt (1819-1867), noted Confederate Naval officer. From 1889, owned by family of George W. Huggins (1841-1916), jeweler.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales

    • Dr. Robert M. Fales

    • Fales family, Taylor family, physicians, medicine, Wilmington, New Hanover Memorial Hospital

    • Dr. Robert Martin Fales, son of James Benjamin Franklin and Maggie Delena Hewlett Fales, was born February 25th, 1907, in Wilmington, N.C. He married Miss Sarah Taylor, and attended Wake Forest and Jefferson Medical College, where he earned his...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales

    • Dr. Robert M. Fales

    • Fales family, Taylor family, physicians

    • Dr. Robert Martin Fales, son of James Benjamin Franklin and Maggie Delena Hewlett Fales, was born February 25th, 1907, in Wilmington, N.C. He married Miss Sarah Taylor, and he attended Wake Forest and Jefferson Medical College, where he received...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. James Dickie and Dr. Robert M. Fales

    • Dr. James Dickie and Dr. Robert M. Fales

    • Dickie family, McDonough family, Fales family, Taylor family, physicians, medical profession

    • Dr. James William Dickie, son of Herbert Gratsby, Sr. and Kate DuRant Dickie, was born September 20th, 1916 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married Miss Gladys McDonough, and his father and brother also received their medical degrees. He was...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Atlantic Paint and Varnish Works, Inc.

    • Atlantic Paint and Varnish Works, Inc.

    • Atlantic Paint and Varnish Works, S. Fifth Avenue,

    • Atlantic Paint and Varnish Works, Inc., was located on South Fifth Avenue, corner of Martin Street. Milton Calder was president, Louis T. Moore, acting secretary and P. W. Davis, acting treasurer (Wilmington City Directory, 1924,1930).
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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