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- New Hanover County Animal Control (1)
- Animal Control
- The building that houses animals at the county's Animal Control offices is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places b/c (because) it is over 50 years old.
- Star-News Image Archive
- Larkins House
- Family residence of William Larkins (1829-1891), Wilmington native, wholesale grocer & liquor dealer, cashier of First National Bank, and rice planter. House sold in 1903 to Samuel Behrends, merchant and furniture store owner, in whose family it...
- Port City Architecture
- Burgwin-Wright House
- Georgian style house built on foundation of abandoned jail for John Burgwin (1731-1803), merchant and lawyer, Clerk of Court in Bladen and New Hanover counties, Clerk of NC Provincial Assembly, Secretary to Royal Governor Dobbs and Treasurer of...
- Port City Architecture
- Allen House
- Colonial Revival style house built for Mitchell F. Allen (1873-1945), officer of Murchison National Bank;and wife, Marth Groff (1870-1913). Remained in family until 1944.
- Port City Architecture
- Burruss-Poisson House
- Queen Anne style residence built for Edwin E. Burruss (1829-1887), founder and president of First National Bank of Wilmington and organizer of Clarendon Water Works Company; and wife, Elizabeth Northrop (1855-1887). Northern porch added c. 1912....
- Port City Architecture
- J. Haughton James House
- Colonial Revival style house built for J. Haughton James (1886-1939), President of the General Insurance Agency, Inc.; and wife, Isabel Clark (1889-1991). Until 1992 residence of daughter, Isabel (1913- ), President of National Society of the...
- Port City Architecture
- Atkinson-Stevenson House
- Italianate style house built for John Wilder Atkinson (1830-1910), native of Lunenburg County, VA, Confederate veteran, insurance agent and New Hanover County commissioner; and wife Eliza Bland Mayo (1832-1880). Enlarged when purchased in 1895 by...
- Port City Architecture
- Greetings from Newell's Shopping Center, Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
- Newell's
- This postcard features a photograph which captures two children playing in the surf at Wrightsville Beach.
- Postcard Collections
- 1924 Aerial-2
- Cape Fear River, Waterfront, Aerial, Federal Building, Custom House
- This b&w aerial view was taken over Eagles Island looking toward downtown Wilmington.
- Wilmington Harbor Collection
- 1943 Aerial
- Cape Fear River, Wilmington, Aerial, Smith Creek
- A b&w aerial photograph of the Cape Fear River, Wilmington, and Smith Creek.
- Wilmington Harbor Collection
- National Cemetery Wilmington N.C.
- cemeteries, Confederacy, deaths, wars, graveyards, tombstones, Market St., burials, military, funerals
- Tree- lined Street in the cemetery showing the gazebo, which has a pointed roof and wrough-iron decorative work on it and white stone grave markers. The Street is unpaved. First internments were in April and May 1867. Where approximately...
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- People's Bank and Trust Company, 1900
- banks, People's Bank and Trust Company, Atlantic National Bank
- People's Bank and Trust Company, 1900, formerly
- Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
- North Front Street - Blocks 100 and 200.
- N. Front Street, Parade, Armistice Day, Murchison
- Military parade marches south on Front Street, possibly an Armistice Day celebration. Old stone post office (built 1889-1891) was on the southeast corner of Front and Chestnut streets. In the background is the Murchison National Bank/Acme Building...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- U.S. Post Office Building (1889-1891).
- Post Office, N. Front Street, Chestnut Street
- The massive stone post office with tower and fine Romanesque detailing was built on this site in 1889-91. The architect of the building was W. A. Freret, supervising architect, U.S. Department of the Treasury. Memorial or Armistice Day display is...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Intersection of North Front Street and Chestnut Street, looking north.
- Murchison Building, N. Front Street, Chestnut Street
- The Murchison Building is on the corner at left. In that same 200 block of North Front Street, Bulluck Hospital and the Bijou Theater were located on the west side of the street. On the opposite corner is the south side of the Murchison/Acme...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Waterfront, Cape Fear River - Wilmington, looking east.
- Waterfront, Cape Fear River, Tidewater Gas Works, Castle Street
- Steamer arrives in port on a National holiday. Tall smokes stacks, at left, are those of the Tidewater Gas Works, located at the foot of Castle Street. The Native Americans called the river, "Sapona," which is formed by the junction of the Haw and...
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Oakdale Cemetery - Confederate Monument.
- Oakdale Cemetery, Cemeteries, Confederate Monument
- This monument marks the graves of over four hundred unknown Confederate Soldiers. The bronze soldier on a large pedestal was designed by William Randolph O'Donovan, sculptor, and executed by Maurice J. Power at his National Art Foundry in New York....
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Cape Fear River.
- Cape Fear River, Motorboat, Race, Four-Masted Vessel
- A small motor boat participates in the National Outboard Motorboat Races on the River. A four-masted vessel is at anchor at right.
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Cape Fear River.
- Cape Fear River, Motorboat, Race
- National Motorboat Races on river at southern end of the Wilmington harbor.
- Louis T. Moore Collection
- Cape Fear River.
- Cape Fear River, Motorboats, Race
- National Motorboat Races on river at southern end of the Wilmington harbor.
- Louis T. Moore Collection

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