Greek Revival style house built for Jethro Ballard (1802-1853), merchant and steam saw mill owner; and wife, Martha P. Nolan (b. 1816). Purchased in 1851 by Samuel R. Potter (1811-1856), planter; and wife, Marion Babcock (1825-1885), who added...
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...
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...
Neoclassical Revival style house built for William Houston Moore (1880-1948), native of Warsaw, NC, physician; and wife, Ida Gallagher (1911-1960), native of Danville, PA. He was a member of the New Hanover Medical Society and the first chairman...
Colonial Revival style house and office built for Frank W. Avant (1876-1973), physician, native of Southport; and wife, Florence L. Nichols (1887-1962), native of Newark, NJ. He was a founder of Community Hospital, president of the New Hanover...
Prairie style house built for John B. Cranmer, M.D. (1874-1954), native of Southport; and wife, May Webb (1871-1958), native of Bertie County, NC. He was a physician, and president of the New Hanover Board of Health and the New Hanover Medical...
Dr. Robert Jackson Andrews (1921-), was born January 21, 1921 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He attended UNC Chapel Hill from 1943-44 and the University of Tennesse, Memphis, in 1946. His parents were Vernon and Edna Hall Andrews and he married...
Avant family, Physicians, African-Americans, medicine, Red Cross St.
Dr. Avant shown in his Flower Garden at his Home on Red Cross St. Dr. Frank W. Avant was born in Smithville (Southport), North Carolina. Dr. Avant attended Howard University (1896); Lincoln University, PA (1898), and Leonard Pharmaceutical School,...
Barefoot family, Murray family, physicians, medicine, James Walker Memorial Hospital
Dr. Graham B. Barefoot (1900-1967), son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Freddie Blake Barefoot, was born March 1st, 1900, in Columbus County, N.C. His brother, William Frederick, was also a medical doctor. He married Elizabeth Murray and attended Wake...
Dr. Graham B. Barefoot (1900-1967), was born in Columbus County, North Carolina, March 1st, 1900. He is the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Freddie Blake Barefoot and had one brother, William Frederick Barefoot, M.D. He married Elizabeth Murray. He...
Bellamy family, Galloway family, physicians, Brunswick County
Mr. George Bellamy, also known as the "Duke" of Brunswick County, with Dr. Walter Curtis Galloway.
Dr. Galloway (1851-1938), was born in Brunswick County, North Carolina.He earned his M.D. from Washington University in Baltimore (with honors) in...
Dr. John Dillard Bellamy (1817-1896) was born in All Saints Parish, SC, and married Mary Priscilla Jennings Harriss in 1839. He studied medicine with Dr. William James Harriss, and, at Jefferson Medical College where he received his M.D. (1839)....
Dr. John Dillard Bellamy (1817-1896) was born in All Saints Parish, SC, and married Mary Priscilla Jennings Harriss in 1839. He studied medicine with Dr. William James Harriss and at Jefferson Medical College receiving his M.D. in 1839. The Bellamy...
Black family, physicians, Hall family, Caines family
Dr. Paul Adrian Laurence Black (1906-), son of Walter L. and Kathleen M. Knight, was born in Medord, Oregon, September 30th, 1906. He married and divorced Patricia Hall and married Mona Faye Caines. He was in private practice (Oph & Ot) and served...
John Henry Borneman - Aug 7, 1915 - M.D.. A graduate of Jefferson Medical School, Dr. Borneman's life was cut short when he accompanied Dr. Morris Milton Caldwell, and Caldwell's brother (also a Physician) on a trip across the Cape Fear River to a...
Brouse family, Barefoot family, physicians, medicine
Dr. Ivan Edwin Brouse (1898-), son of Jacob Edwin and Christina Chalmers Crosbie Brouse was born December 15th, 1898 in New Denver, B.C., Canada. His father was aldo a Medical Doctor. He married Vera Perritt and attended McGill University where he...
Dr. David William Bulluck, Sr. (1853-1914) was born June 5, 1853 in Tarboro, North Carolina. He was married to Maude Southerland Braswell and had a son, Ernest Southerland Bulluck, M.D. who was a surgeon and a grandson, Matthew Heyer Bulluck, M.D....
Chestnut Street, N. Second Street, Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood
A black vendor is in front of the Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood house on the northeast corner of Second and Chestnut Street.
Dr. Wood and his son, Dr. Edward Jenner Wood (1878-1928), shared offices on the ground floor of this building. Dr. Thomas Wood...
Dr. John Bonnell Coddington (1925), son of Herbert H. Sr., M.D. and Jessie Peck Coddington, was born October 27th, 1927 in WIlmington, North Carolina. He married Elizabeth CArter and they had a son, Herbert A. Codington, Jr., (M.D.), who was a...
Dr. Thomas Craven, Jr., son of Thomas and Mildred Smith Craven, was born in Huntersville, North Carolina, July 30th, 1929. His father, Thomas Craven, Sr., was also a Medical Doctor. He attended Davidson College (1951) and UNC-Chapel Hill (1958). He...