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    • Morris-Shepard Cottage

    • Morris-Shepard Cottage
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    • Cottage built for Rhetta Morris (1842-1910), midwife; and husband, Simon Morris (c. 1840-1882), carpenter and member of Love & Charity Benevolent Association. Purchased in 1927 by her daughter-in-law, Theresa Chrissie Topson (1865-1935), native of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • 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
    • Oldham-Allison Building

    • Oldham-Allison Building
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    • Mission Revival style building constructed as a grist mill for Captain William P. Oldham (1836-1918), native of Orange County, NC, and Confederate officer. Occupied variously by a stable, ice and cold storage company, and welding and auto repair...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Willson-Powell House

    • Willson-Powell House
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    • Built for William Alexander Willson, Jr. (1865-1949), accountant for American Railway Express; and wife, Mary Hart Morris (1874-1965). Purchased in 1918 by John F. Powell (1884-1948), native of Ireland; and wife, Dorothy Palmer (1893-1954)....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Tileston School

    • Tileston School
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    • The original Italianate style center section was financed by philanthropist Mary Tileston Hemenway (1820-1894) and designed by John A. Fox, both of Boston, MA; James Walker, local supervising architect; Strausz & Rice of Wilmington, builders....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Tileston School

    • Tileston School
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    • The original Italianate style center section was financed by philanthropist Mary Tileston Hemenway (1820-1894) and designed by John A. Fox, both of Boston, MA; James Walker, local supervising architect; Strausz & Rice of Wilmington, builders. ...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Neil M. McEachern House

    • Neil M. McEachern House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Neil Morris McEachern (1867-1929), partner in John S. McEachern Sons, purveyors of grain, hay and feed; and wife, Drusilla Roland Perry (1866-1942), native of Bladen County. In 1941, sold to Ruth Tyler...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Picture of Alberta Robinson

    • Picture of Alberta Robinson

    • nurses, James Walker Memorial Hospital, nursing schools

    • Both Florence Hayes (Mrs. Morris Caldwell), Alberta Robinson (pictured) of Dunn, N.C., were the only two members of the first graduating class of nurses from the nursing school located at James Walker Memorial Hospital.
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. D. R. McEachern

    • Dr. D. R. McEachern

    • McEachern family, Shepherd family, physicians

    • Dr. Duncan Roland McEachern (1905-1970), son of Drusilla and Neil Morris McEachern, was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, July 19th, 1905. He married Eloise Melville Sheperd, attended Davidson College (1928) and the Medical College of Virginia...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • John Henry Borneman

    • John Henry Borneman

    • Borneman, physicians, Caldwell

    • 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...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • North Front Street - 200 block.

    • North Front Street - 200 block.

    • N. Front Street, Murchison, Chestnut Street

    • Chestnut Street - 100 block - north side The main buildings are (from left) the first floor of the Murchison Building, (built 1913/1914); the Murchison National Bank-Acme Building (1902) and the tall building to the left, the Cape Fear Hotel...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • North Front Street, 200 block, east side.

    • North Front Street, 200 block, east side.

    • N. Front Street, Chestnut Street, Murchison-Acme Building

    • At right on the corner of Front and Chestnut streets is the Murchison National Bank - Acme Building. The bank organized in March 1899, moved into the structure in 1902. Charles McMillen was the architect, with John H. Brunjes, the builder....
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Intersection of North Front and Chestnut streets.

    • Intersection of North Front and Chestnut streets.

    • Murchison Building, Murchison/Acme Building, Bijou Theater, N. Front Street, Chesnut Street

    • The Murchison Building (at left) and the Murchison/Acme Building are on the corners. The Morris Plan Bank occupied the latter building at one time. Two doors from the Murchison Building is the structure, where Bulluck Hospital was located for a...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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