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    • Gause-Bolles House

    • Gause-Bolles House
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    • Built by Samuel P. Gause (1818-1875), a Wilmington merchant. Sold in 1863 to John Van Sickle (1808-1869), tobacconist. After death of his widow Anna, in 1870, house sold at public auction to Mary McRee Walker Hill. In 1887, it passed to her heir,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Masonic Hall

    • Masonic Hall
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    • Third building constructed to house St.. Johns Lodge No. 1, A.F. & A.M. Until 1899 third floor used by several masonic lodges. Receptions held here for Henry Clay (1844), Daniel Webster (1847), and President James K. Polk (1849). Public Hall on...
    • Port City Architecture
    • John A. Taylor House

    • John A. Taylor House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for John A. Taylor (1798-1873), native of New York, shipping and railroad industrialist, civic leader; and wife, Catherine M. Harriss (1806-1877). From 1893 to 1951 the building served as an armory for the Wilmington...
    • 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
    • John C. Wessell House

    • John C. Wessell House
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    • Prairie style house built for John Charles Wessell (1877-1960), physician and surgeon; and wife, Isabelle Struthers (1883-1962), native of Columbus County. The New Hanover County tuberculosis hospital was named in his honor for his long service in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Williston High School

    • Williston High School
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    • Begun in 1865 by the Freedman's Bureau as an elementary school for blacks; then operated by the American Missionary Association and named for Massachusettes benefactor Samuel Williston. It became the city's first public school for blacks when...
    • 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
    • Airlie Gardens - Azaleas around lake.

    • Airlie Gardens - Azaleas around lake.

    • Airlie Gardens, Azaleas, Lake

    • By 1910, Pembroke Jones (1858-1919) had acquired considerable acreage on the north shore of Bradley Creek. Jones was a wealthy man, who married Sadie Wharton Green (1859-1943). He named his property, "Airlie," after an English estate of the same...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Airlie Gardens - Lake.

    • Airlie Gardens - Lake.

    • Airlie Gardens, Lake

    • By 1910, Pembroke Jones (1858-1919) had acquired considerable acreage on the north shore of Bradley Creek. Jones was a wealthy man, who married Sadie Wharton Green (1859-1943). He named his property, "Airlie," after an English estate of the same...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Airlie Gardens.

    • Airlie Gardens.

    • Airlie Gardens, Oak Trees

    • Oak trees, hung with Spanish moss. By 1910, Pembroke Jones (1858-1919) had acquired considerable acreage on the north shore of Bradley Creek. Jones was a wealthy man, who married Sadie Wharton Green (1859-1943). He named his property, "Airlie,"...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Airlie Gardens - Swans on the pond.

    • Airlie Gardens - Swans on the pond.

    • Airlie Gardens, Swans

    • By 1910, Pembroke Jones (1858-1919) had acquired considerable acreage on the north shore of Bradley Creek. Jones was a wealthy man, who married Sadie Wharton Green (1859-1943). He named his property, "Airlie," after an English estate of the same...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Brunswick County Airshow (2)

    • Brunswick County Airshow (2)

    • Airshows, Brunswick County

    • Jim Russ of Wallace climbs from the cockpit of his T-34 trainer Saturday at the Brunswick County Airshow held at the airport near Oak Island. Pilots flew in their war birds, experimental and conventionalplanes for to let the public see them up...
    • Star-News Image Archive

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