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    • George R. French & Sons Building

    • George R. French & Sons Building
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    • Wilmingtons first iron-front and steel-frame structure, built for George Reade French (1802-1889), native of Massachusetts, boot and shoe merchant. George R. French & Sons, established in 1822, was continued by William A. French (1835-1907) and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Serving Smoked Mullet

    • Serving Smoked Mullet

    • Brunswick Town, NC

    • Mark Munden of the American Society of Interpretive Historians, lets Richard Lawrence and his 2 sons Randy (in his arms), and Jeffery (on his back), try some of the smoked mullet at the Heritage Days at Brunswick Town.
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    • Kidder House

    • Kidder House
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    • Shingle style house built as rental property for George W. Kidder (1844-1915), saw and planing mill owner; and wife, Florence Hill (1855-1917). Inherited by daughter, Florence Kidder Moore (1888-1971), wife of Louis T. Moore (1885-1961), secretary...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Ahrens Building

    • Ahrens Building
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    • Neoclassical Revival style commercial building commissioned by Benjamin H.J. Ahrens (1844-1912), native of Germany, grocer, for sons Eduard (1876-1961), and Adolph G. (1882-1953), who operated Ahrens Brothers Wholesale Drug Company here for...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bergen-Carpender House

    • Bergen-Carpender House
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    • Prairie style house built for Walter John Bergen (1859-1931), secretary of Alexander Sprunt & Sons, Cotton Brokers; and wife, Mary Madden (1867-1947), natives of New York. Purchased in 1947 by Edwin Robinson Carpender (1882-1965), native of New...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Newton-Millinor House

    • Newton-Millinor House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Southport natives, Joseph Stokes Newton (1874-1958), stevedore; and wife, Daisy Burriss (1876-1950). Purchased in 1956 by Maurice Lee Millinor (1924- ), auto mechanic with C.C. Grissom & Sons; and wife,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Platt-Slocumb House

    • Platt-Slocumb House
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    • California Bungalow built for John Edward Platt (1878-1951), automobile dealer; and wife, Elizabeth Daisy Thees (1881-1956). Purchased in 1925 by John Charles Slocumb (1881-1941), native of Goldsboro, NC, bookkeeper and manager with Alexander...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Tannahill

    • Tannahill
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    • Original house built for Charles W. Worth (1861-1930), secretary-treasurer of Wilmington Terminal Warehouse Co.; and wife, Emma Walker (1867-1956), native of Asheboro, NC. Purchased and enlarged in the Neoclassical Revival style by William H....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Runge-Fales House

    • Runge-Fales House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for Gerhardt Henry William Runge (1828-1876), grocer and saloon keeper; and wife, Johanna H. Eckel (1836-1920), natives of Hannover, Germany. Purchased in 1922 by James Benjamin Franklin Fales (1859-1925), owner of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Shore Acres House

    • Shore Acres House
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    • Mediterranean style house built as model home for Shore Acres Company, Roger Moore and Oliver T. Wallace, developers, Luther T. Rogers, contractor. From 1932 to 1969 owned by Roger Moore (1879-1968); and wife, Alice Borden (1881-1954). He was...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Westerman House

    • Westerman House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Fredrick W. Westerman (1868-1928), carpenter; and wife, Annie Allen (1868-1942). Residence of sons, James (1892-1979) and Allen (1907-1985), cabinet makers and carpenters. House remained in family for...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Cassidey-Harper House

    • Cassidey-Harper House
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    • Built as family residence by James Cassidey (1792-1866), native of Salisbury, MA, who with his sons operated an extensive shipyard and marine railway at river below house. Confederate ironclad RALEIGH was constructed there. His daughter, Anne E....
    • 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
    • Deans-Maffitt House

    • Deans-Maffitt House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for James Irving Deans (1824-1877), native of Scotland; and wife, Ellen Geary (1833-1917), native of Ireland. He was a bookkeeper with Edward Kidder & Sons, lumber dealers. After his death she ran a boarding house....
    • Port City Architecture

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