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    • Chestnut Street - 200 block.

    • Chestnut Street - 200 block.

    • Chestnut Street, N. Second Street, Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood

    • A black vendor is in front of the Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood house on the northeast corner of Second and Chestnut Street. Dr. Wood and his son, Dr. Edward Jenner Wood (1878-1928), shared offices on the ground floor of this building. Dr. Thomas Wood...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Dr. Thomas Wood

    • Dr. Thomas Wood

    • Wood family, physicians, Medicine

    • Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood (1831-1892), son of Robert B. and Mary A. Wood, was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, February 23rd, 1831. He married Margaret Adelia Fuller, February 21st, 1866 in Lumberton, North Carolina. They had a son, Edward Jenner...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Second Street, north - 100 block.

    • Second Street, north - 100 block.

    • N. Second Street, Post Office Park, Cap Fear Club, Chestnut Street

    • The photo was taken across Post Office Park and shows the northeast and southeast corners of north Second and Chestnut streets. The Cape Fear Club is in the center and across Chestnut Street is the home of Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood (1841-1892). Dr....
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • St. Thomas The Apostle Church

    • St. Thomas The Apostle Church
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    • 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
    • Dr. Edward Jenner Wood

    • Dr. Edward Jenner Wood

    • Wood family, physicians, medicine

    • Dr. Edward Jenner Wood, son of Thomas Fanning and Margaret Adelia Fuller Wood was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He received his M.D. from The University of Pennsylvania in 1902 and was a General Practioner. Notable achievements: N.C. Board of...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Fanning House

    • Fanning House
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    • Italianate style house built for Phineas Wines Fanning (1799-1880), native of Nantucket, MA; house, ship and sign painter, Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina from 1844 to 1846. Purchased in 1883 by Joseph Newman (1810-1887), native of Kingdom...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Orton Billard & Pool Rooms

    • Orton Billard & Pool Rooms
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    • Basement is the only surviving section of Orton Hotel which was built in 1886 for Col. Kenneth Murchison (1831-1906). Billiard and pool rooms, steam laundry, bakery, and bar room installed during the 1888 enlargement by W. A. Bryan, proprietor....
    • Port City Architecture
    • McRae-Willard House

    • McRae-Willard House
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    • Italianate Cubical Cottage, in the Tuscan Style, built for Duncan K. MacRae (1820-1888), native of Fayetteville, lawyer, politician, foreign diplomat, orator and Confederate Colonel. Purchased in 1866 by Albert A. Willard (1828-1902), native of MA,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Latimer House

    • Latimer House
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    • 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
    • St. James Church

    • St. James Church
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    • Oldest house of worship in Wilmington, built for Episcopal parish established in 1729. First mature example of Gothic Revival style in North Carolina. Chancel altered and south transept added in 1885 from plans of New York architect, Henry C....
    • Port City Architecture
    • City Hall - Thalian Hall

    • City Hall - Thalian Hall
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    • 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
    • St. James Episcopal Church, 1844

    • St. James Episcopal Church, 1844

    • churches, Episcopal churches, St. James Episcopal Church, South Third Street

    • St. James Episcopal Church, located at One South Third Street, was acquired by the congregation from Armand deRosset (the rest of the land was acquired over the years). It's design and construction involved at least 10 different architects and...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood

    • Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood

    • physicians, Board of Health, Botany

    • Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood (1831-1892) received his medical education at the Medical College of Virginia. He was a botanist as well as a CSA soldier and surgeon. He is known as the father of the N.C. State Board of Health and was the editor and...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • North Second Street and Chestnut Street.

    • North Second Street and Chestnut Street.

    • Post Office Park, Cape Fear Motel, Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood House, Cape Fear Club, N. Second Street, Chestnut Street

    • An unidentified man stands next to a flower bed in Post Office Park. At left is the corner of the Cape Fear Hotel. The Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood House is on the northeast corner, with the Cape Fear Club in the center across Second Street.
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Chestnut Street - 200 block.

    • Chestnut Street - 200 block.

    • Chestnut Street, N. Second Street, Cape Fear Club, Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood

    • A houseman, with a broom is in front of the Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood house on the corner of North Second and Chestnut streets. To the right, through the trees, is the side entrance of the Cape Fear Club.
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Princess Street - 300 block.

    • Princess Street - 300 block.

    • Princess Street

    • View of the north side of the 300 block of Princess Street, with the entrance to Thalian Hall at left. Note house on the corner of the 100 block of north Fourth Street, which was owned by Sarah Bowden. The pavement of Princess Street is made of...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Thalian Hall - 300 block of Princess Street.

    • Thalian Hall - 300 block of Princess Street.

    • Thalian Hall, City Hall, Princess Street, N. Third Street

    • Clothing collected for the poor during the Depression years. Entrance of Thalian Hall and steps. Wilmington's impressive City Hall and attendant theater, Thalian Hall, was authorized by the Wilmington Board of Alderman in 1854. John Trimble, a New...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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