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    • St. Andrews Presbyterian Church

    • St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
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    • Late Gothic Revival style church built for St. Andrews Presbyterian congregation. Sunday School annex (1910-1911) given by William H. Sprunt (1857-1939). In 1944, congregation merged with Church of the Covenant at Fifteenth and Market streets....
    • Port City Architecture
    • 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
    • Captain John Harper House

    • Captain John Harper House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Captain John W. Harper (1856-1917); and his bride, Ella C. Strupe (1878-1945). He was the owner of Wilmington and Southport Steamboat Company which operated the steamers Wilmington and Sylvan Grove. An...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Harper-Newbold House

    • Harper-Newbold House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Captain James Thomas Harper (1843-1915), steam tug operator, co-founder of Boney & Harper Milling Company and proprietor of Wilmington Steam Laundry; and wife, Annie Sophie Drew (1844-1913). House was a...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Harrison-Norden House

    • Harrison-Norden House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built as investment property for Thomas Wesley Harrison (1878-1955), president of A. D. Brown & Co., dry goods. Purchased in 1939 by Eric Norden (1869-1946), native of Sweden, civil engineer and map maker; and wife,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Hill House

    • Hill House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for William B. Hill (1840-1893), porter with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; and wife, Mary Jane Benton (1847-1917). Remained in family for 90 years.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Holloway-Hunt House

    • Holloway-Hunt House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Cammie Lord Holloway (1874-1960); and husband, Elisha Lambert Holloway (1869-1947), clerk at Angola Lumber Company. From 1910 to 1914, residence of Joseph Schad, contractor and builder, who constructed...
    • Port City Architecture
    • William Hooper School

    • William Hooper School
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    • Classical Revival style elementary school constructed to educate the children of Southside Wilmington. Eliza Meares (1864-1926), served as the first principal from 1914 to 1925. Used as a school until 1984. Converted to apartments for the...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Hopkins House

    • Hopkins House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Benjamin T. Hopkins (1870-1961), native of Accomac, VA and district manager of Life Insurance Company of Virginia; and wife, Josephine Kelley (1874-1953), native of New Jersey. Purchased in 1959 by Edwin B....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Howey-Wiard House

    • Howey-Wiard House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for use as rental property on land inherited by Urbana, Mary D., William M., and George Parker Howey who lived at No. 222. Remained in family until 1932. Purchased in 1955 by David Kyle Wiard (1904-1972),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Ballard-Potter-Bellamy House

    • Ballard-Potter-Bellamy House
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    • 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...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Coin-Rogers House

    • Coin-Rogers House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Elizabeth Whitehurst (1877-1948) and John Milton Coin (1877-1937), manager of Angola Lumber Co. Purchased in 1919 by Harry Edmund Rogers (1885-1969), native of Dayton, Ohio, attorney and dean of Wilmington...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Gwaltney-Martin House

    • Gwaltney-Martin House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Robert Howell Gwaltney (1878-1939), native of Raleigh, NC, manager of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance, Co.; and wife, Octavia Boatwright (1880-1964). Purchased in 1914 by Eugene Stuart Martin...
    • Port City Architecture
    • John Hall House

    • John Hall House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for John Hall (1879-1983) of Hall & Pearsall, Inc., wholesale grocers and importers; and wife, Katherine Hoke (1886-1968), native of Lincolnton, NC. House remained in family until 1973; moved from 6 South...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Steven Jewett House

    • Steven Jewett House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for Stephen Jewett (1805-1862), native of Maine, cabinetmaker and cashier for the Bank of Wilmington; and wife, Lucy A. Bradley (1819-1898). Remained in family for forty-seven years. In 1989 saved for preservation...
    • 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
    • Price-Leiner House

    • Price-Leiner House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Willie Ann Wood Price (1857-1931), widow of William P. Price (1853-1904). Purchased in 1919 by Ludwig Leiner (1862-1951); and wife, Katie Stuart Burriss (1880-1970). A native of Bavaria, he served in the...
    • 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
    • deRosset House

    • deRosset House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for Armand John deRosset (1808-1897), physician and merchant; and wife, Eliza Jane Lord (1812-1876). They added the northeast wing in 1854 and the Italianate cornice and conservatory in 1874. Purchased in 1882 by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • William Rand Kenan House

    • William Rand Kenan House
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    • Built for William Rand Kenan (1845-1903), native of Duplin County, Confederate officer, commander of the Wilmington Light Infantry, collector of the port of Wilmington and wholesale merchant; and wife, Mary Hargrave (1842-1916), native of Orange...
    • Port City Architecture

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