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    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03071

    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03071

    • Azalea Festival Collection

    • Debra Paget, Azalea Queen XII, poses for a photograph during the Azalea Festival that took place April 2-5, 1959. Gov. Ronald Reagan presided as master of ceremonies, and celebrity guest appearances included: Harvey Hudson and Howard Morris.
    • Azalea Festival Collection
    • AF-A_1953_Crowning_02

    • AF-A_1953_Crowning_02

    • Azalea Festival

    • Newspaper clipping of Queen Azalea V Cathy Downs at the March 1952 festival. Also pictured is the Master of Ceremonies, Harry Wismer, who was a sports commentator. Miss Downs was a famous movie actress.
    • Azalea Festival Collection
    • 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...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Gooding-Lawton-Grant House

    • Gooding-Lawton-Grant House
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    • Built by F.J. Gooding, superintendent of Hilton Lumber Co., as investment property. Sold in 1905 to Florence V. Lawton (1856-1924) who resided here with her sister, Anna Lawton Grant (1858-1942) and her husband, Richard H. Grant (1845-1912), master...
    • 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
    • William B. McKoy House

    • William B. McKoy House
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    • Stick style house built as a residence for W.B. McKoy, (1852-1928), attorney and Past Grand Master of Masons of NC; and wife, Katherine Bacon (1858-1949). Home of daughter Elizabeth Francenia McKoy, (1887-1984), local historian, researcher, and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • William J. Price House

    • William J. Price House
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    • Italianate style house built for William Jones Price (1804-1868), Lt. Col. C.S.A., physician; and wife, Sara T. (1824-1865). Inherited by his son Captain Joseph Price (1835-1895), commander of C.S.A. Neuse and Wilmington Harbor Master. House...
    • 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
    • Trask-Brinson House

    • Trask-Brinson House
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    • Vernacular style house built for George W. Trask (1875-1963), master farmer; and wife, Emma Borneman (1884-1962). First occupants were Walter Marvin Brinson (1884-1967), conductor, and family.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Chadwick-Teague House

    • Chadwick-Teague House
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    • Craftsman style house, one of the first two residences in Sunset Park, built for David Nicholas Chadwick (1884-1962), secretary-treasurer of Fidelity Trust and Development Company, developer of Sunset Park; and wife, Ethel Hopkins (1885-1966). ...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Sternberger-Small House

    • Sternberger-Small House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built by Solomon Sternberger (1870-1945), dry goods merchant, for son, Julius Earl "Jinx" Sternberger (1897-1966), World War I veteran, realtor, director of Carolina Savings & Loan; and wife, Sadibel Simon (1904-1983),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • St. Stephen A.M.E. Church

    • St. Stephen A.M.E. Church
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    • Late Gothic Revival style church built for African Methodist Episcopal congregation organized in 1865. Contractor and church member Lewis Hollingsworth designed the building. Other congregants worked as master carpenters and masons. Notable...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Captain Edgar Williams House

    • Captain Edgar Williams House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for Edgar Dickison Williams (1849-1928); and wife, Ida Jane Fleet (1856-1923). He was a steamboat captain, owner of Diamond Steamboat & Wrecking Co., Harbor Master for the port of Wilmington, Commissioner of Wrecks,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • 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...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Capt. Joseph Price House

    • Capt. Joseph Price House
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    • Late Greek Revival style house built for Joseph W. Price (1835-1895), native of Duplin County; and wife, Lassie Jones (1846-1934). He served in the Pacific as a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. During the Civil War he commanded the...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Finberg-Monds House

    • Finberg-Monds House
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    • Bungalow built as investment property. Residence of Louis B. Finberg (1902-1992), harbor master and vice-president of Heide Warehouse Co.; and wife, Florence Chadwick (1902-1966). Purchased in 1953 by John Monds (1921-1987), inspector with...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Evans House

    • Evans House
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    • Queen Anne style house built as investment property for Annie C. Evans (1868-1928); and husband, Daniel W. Evans (1864-1899), attorney, barber and Master of New Light Masonic Lodge. Purchased in 1918 by Francis Marion Foy (1855-1930), native of...
    • Port City Architecture

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