New Hanover County Public Library Digital Archives

Flood After Rainfall, Trinity Methodist Church, New Hanover High School, Early 1920s
floods, New Hanover High School, churches, Trinity Methodist Church
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 1922. With an enrollment of 840 students it was the largest high school in...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Grace Methodist Church, 4th and Grace Streets
churches, Methodist Churches, Grace United Methodist Church, Front St., Grace St.
Showing the bell tower of Grace Methodist Church at 4th and Grace Sts. Originally started as Front Street Methodist Church in 1796. After a horrible fire in 1886, the church moved to what is now 4th and Grace. The church burned again on March 21,...
Dr. Robert M. Fales 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

Front St. Methodist Church
churches, Methodist churches, Front St. Methodist Church, Walnut St.
Front St. Methodist Church, Southeast corner, Front and Walnut St., prior to 1886
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Front St. Methodist Church on Fire
churches, Methodist Church, Front St., fires
old Methodist Church on Front Street, destroyed by fire on Sunday, February 21, 1886
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Grace Methodist Church, 1888
churches, Methodist churches, Grace Methodist Church, Grace Street, 4th Street
Construction began in 1887 and was dedicated in 1890. Worship services were held at the Temple of Israel until construction was completed. In honor of the church, "Mulberry" St. was changed to "Grace" Street, in 1895. A new Sunday School Annex,...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Grace Methodist Church
churches, Methodist churches, Grace Methodist Church, 4th St.
Located at 4th and Grace Streets-construction began in 1887 the church was dedicated in 1890. Worship services were held at the Temple of Israel until construction was completed. In honor of the church, "Mulberry" St. was changed to "Grace" Street,...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Bible School at Wesley Methodist
churches, Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Native Americans, South College Road, shelters, Christian schools
Spot News on Vacation Bible School at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church. The 7 female teachers and one male teacher are dressed up in a variety of international costumes standing in front of a mud hut with a straw roof under a picnic shelter.
Star-News Image Archive

Reuben Grant Cottage
Cottage built for Reuben Grant (1818-1880), native of Onslow County, Methodist minister and longtime member of Fifth Street Methodist Episcopal Church; and wife, Sarah Ann Dawson (1823-1888). Purchased in 1885 by Willie Ann Wood Price (1857-1931),...
Port City Architecture

Hame Elementary School
elementary schools, Hame Elementary School, Fifth Avenue Methodist Church, 6th St.
Hame Elementary School on 6th St., behind 5th Avenue Methodist Church
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

New Hanover County Animal Control (2)
opossums, animal control, New Hanover County
Darrell Wolf holds a steel pot containing a rescued opossum Monday morning as fellow Wilmington firefighters Rick Pearsall and James DeVane look on. The opossum was found in the Grace United Methodist Church's dishwasher Monday am by church...
Star-News Image Archive

Parrish Caine Brakes Sign
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, advertisements, Kettle pancake, Bullard State Farm insurance, Bradley & Smith realty, Ernie's hair salon, Frontier, school buses, delivery truck, beauty shops, speed limit 45 sign, Wesley Memorial...
Shows billboards, restaurants, realtors, insurance companies and traffic at the intersection of Oleander Dr. and College Rd. [looking towards UNC-W].
Star-News Image Archive

Fifth Avenue Methodist Church
Neo-Gothic style church built for congregation organized in 1847 to serve residents in the southern section of the city. This building, which replaced an earlier wooden structure, was dedicated on September 26, 1890. The education building, erected...
Port City Architecture

Grace Church Sunday School Annex
The only portion of Grace Methodist Church to survive the 1947 fire, was dedicated on January 14, 1917, during the tenure of the Reverend M. T. Plyler. Building committee members were R. C. Merritt, chairman, J. E. Willoughby, J. T. King, T. A....
Port City Architecture

Grant-Stevenson House
North wing, c. 1875, built for Ruben Grant (1810-1880), Methodist minister; and wife, Sarah Ann Dawson (1823-1888). South wing, c. 1872, built for James C. Stevenson (1847-1907), wholesale grocer; and wife, Elizabeth J. Smith (1850-1919). Son,...
Port City Architecture

Yopp House
Colonial Revival style house built for Walter E. Yopp (1860-1933), funeral director; and wife, Emma H. Donnelly (1872-1955). He was a Wilmington city alderman for fifteen years, a New Hanover County commissioner for twenty years and a trustee of...
Port City Architecture

St. Stephen A.M.E. Church
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

J.O. Hinton House
Neo-Classical Revival style house built as investment property for James Oscar Hinton (1873-1952), manager of City Laundry; and wife, Estelle Shepherd (1875-1960). The second story was added in the late 1920s during the ownership of the Rev....
Port City Architecture

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