New Hanover County Public Library Digital Archives

Brady House
Built by Robert Henderson Brady (1859-1936), bricklayer; builder and contractor, for his wife, Willie Wallace (1864-1944), as their family residence. Remained in family until 1979.
Port City Architecture

Dr. Robert Melton
physicians, Robert Melton, Melton
Dr. Robert A. Melton (1930-), son of R.A. and Jennie Melton was born in Wilmington, North Carolina February 11th, 1930. He married Sara Melton and attended Duke, where, in 1954, he earned his M.D. He was a Pediatrician in private practice;...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Dr. Robert Pigford
Pigford family, Toms family, Selden family, Harris family, physicians
Dr. Robert Toms Pigford (1914-), son of Robert Weldon and Myrtle Toms Pigford, was born in Wilmington, N.C. November 20th, 1914. He married Miss Lavinia Selden Harris, attended UNC-Chapel Hill (1936) and The University of Maryland (1940). He was in...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Robert R. Bellamy - Druggist
Robert R. Bellamy, receipt, Pharmacist, Druggist, Front Street, Market Street
A receipt for Robert R. Bellamy's pharmacy, located at the northwest corner of Front and Market Streets.
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

The Major General Robert Howe Highway marker in Brunswick County, NC, located near his grave on Grange Plantation.
Major General Robert Howe, Robert Howe, Grange Plantation, Brunswick County
Major General Howe (1732-1786) was a leader in the movement for Independence. He was a member of the Colonial Assembly, 1772-73 and the Continental Army, 1775-1783, serving on the Staff of General George Washington. He organized the North Carolina...
Louis T. Moore Collection

NCRPC01862
North Carolina Shipbuilding Company
Launching party of the SS Hannis Taylor, on May 31, 1943, at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, NC. Pictured left to right are Robert Tate, of Wilmington; Robert Tate Jr.; unknown person; Mrs. Robert Tate; unknown person;...
North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, 1941-1946

Latimer House
Italianate style house built for Zebulon Latimer (1810-1881), native of Glastonbury, Connecticut, commission merchant; and wife, Elizabeth Savage (1819-1904). Remained in family unitl 1963 when purchased by the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society,...
Port City Architecture

Robert R. Bellamy Building
Commercial structure built as rental property for Robert R. Bellamy (1861-1926), owner of wholesale drug business and officer of Delgado Cotton Mills. Originally constructed as a boot and shoe store; later occupied by clothing stores and jewelers....
Port City Architecture

St. James Rectory
Craftsman style house built as rental property for Michael J. Corbett (1856-1942), native of Ireland, President of The Corbett Company, commission merchants; and wife, Josephine Deans (1862-1956). Purchased in 1919 by the Vestry of St. James Parish...
Port City Architecture

St. Thomas The Apostle Church
Gothic Revival style church built for second oldest Catholic parish in NC. Home church of Thomas F. Price (1860-1919), co-founder of Maryknoll Fathers. James Gibbons (1834-1921), first Vicar Apostolic of NC, began writing the book The Faith of Our...
Port City Architecture

City Hall - Thalian Hall
Italianate and Classical Revival style city hall and theater built for the citizens of Wilmington, the largest town in North Carolina at the time. One of the nations few surviving antebellum buildings constructed to serve as both governmental and...
Port City Architecture

Robert B. Bell House
Cape Cod style house built for Robert Bailey Bell (1899-1981), salesman for International Shoe Company from 1927 to 1966; and wife, Elizabeth Davis (1897-1981). remained in family until 1984.
Port City Architecture

French-Shrier Building
Built for William A. French (1835-1907) as investment property and leased to various merchants including tailors, clothiers and stationers. Purchased in 1914 by Isaac Shrier (1841-1920), clothier, native of Bavaria, who renovated the building in...
Port City Architecture

Dr. Bob Williams
Williams family, Martin family, physicians, emergency rooms, hospitals, medicine
Dr. Robert Wefer Williams (1921), son of Robert J. and Elsie Wefer Williams, was born January 27th, 1921, in New York, N.Y. He married Miss Isabel Martin and attended Harvard (1942) and Cornell Medical College, where he received his M.D. (1945). He...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Dr. Robert J. Andrews
Andrews family, physicians, medicine
Dr. Robert Jackson Andrews (1921-), was born January 21, 1921 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He attended UNC Chapel Hill from 1943-44 and the University of Tennesse, Memphis, in 1946. His parents were Vernon and Edna Hall Andrews and he married...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Home of Dr. Robert M. Fales
Fales family, residences, physicians, Azalea Festival, Renovah Circle
Front view of the home of Dr. Robert M. Fales, located at 407 Renovah Circle in Wilmington, taken during the Azalea Festival. Dr. Fales, son of James Benjamin Franklin and Maggie Delena Hewlett Fales, was born February 25th, 1907, in Wilmington,...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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