New Hanover County Public Library Digital Archives

North Front Street - 200 block.
N. Front Street, Murchison, Chestnut Street
Chestnut Street - 100 block - north side The main buildings are (from left) the first floor of the Murchison Building, (built 1913/1914); the Murchison National Bank-Acme Building (1902) and the tall building to the left, the Cape Fear Hotel...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Masonic Hall
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

Murchison Building
Murchison Building
At eleven stories, the Murchison-First Union Building is the tallest structure in Wilmington. Built 1913-1914, Wilmington native, Kenneth M. Murchison (1872-1938) of New York, was the architect for the Neoclassical Revival building, which...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Intersection of North Front Street and Chestnut Street, looking north.
Murchison Building, N. Front Street, Chestnut Street
The Murchison Building is on the corner at left. In that same 200 block of North Front Street, Bulluck Hospital and the Bijou Theater were located on the west side of the street. On the opposite corner is the south side of the Murchison/Acme...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Murchison Building-First Union Building - North Front Street, 200 block.
Murchison Building, First Union Building, N. Front Street
At eleven stories, the Murchison-First Union Building was the tallest structure in Wilmington until the construction of the twelve-story PPD Building in 2007. Built 1913-1914, Wilmington native, Kenneth M. Murchison (1872-1938) of New York, was the...
Louis T. Moore Collection

North Front and Chestnut streets, looking north.
N. Front Street, Chestnut Street, Murchison Building, Feast of Pirates
At eleven stories, the Murchison-First Union Building is the tallest structure in Wilmington. Built 1913-1914, Wilmington native, Kenneth M. Murchison (1872-1938) of New York, was the architect for the Neoclassical Revival building, which...
Louis T. Moore Collection

North End of Lumina Dance Floor
Lumina, Wrightsville Beach, dancing, Lumina Pavillion, ballrooms
Lumina Pavillion, with it's famous dance floor, was built in 1905 and torn down in 1978.
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

North Carolina Sorosis Clubhouse - North Third Street - 100 block.
Sorosis, N. Third Street
According to the 1860 Wilmington City Directory, Shaddrack M. West (ca. 1810-1871) was living in the house on North Third Street, between Princess and Chestnut streets. The large three-story Italinate dwelling was built ca. 1858. On July 10, 1914,...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Bellamy Mansion Fire (1)
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, historic places, slave quarters, Market St and 5th St., mansions, fires, antebellum architecture
A burned area around one of the marbalized slate fireplaces on the ground floor in the Bellamy Mansion. 2 small glass containers and a framed needlepoint (God bless our home) rests on the mantle.
Star-News Image Archive

Bellamy Mansion Fire (2)
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, historical district, historic buildings, 5th & Market St, mansions, fires, antique furniture, antebellum architecture
The terrible destruction caused by a fire in the Bellamy Mansion is shown by the debris littered floor, peeling wallpaper, scorched furniture [sideboards, table holding condiment containers, silver water pitcher and silver covered dish] in what...
Star-News Image Archive

Harrison Farm Blueberries
North Carolina, farms, fruit, African Americans, workers, laborers, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
In an old barn-like area, children at the Gale Harrison farm in Ivanhoe, Sampson County, wait in line to weigh the berries they have picked. Pickers are paid by the weight. One adult male seems to be helping. Cases of sodas, and empty wooden...
Star-News Image Archive

Forest Hills School
Built to consolidate East Wilmington, Kirkland, Middle Sound and Masonboro schools. With rapid development of Forest Hills, it became the neighborhood school. The original one-story building contained seven classrooms, an auditorium and a library....
Port City Architecture

Hasell-Parsley House
William S. Hasell (1780-1814), attorney, editor of the Wilmington Gazette, and founder of the Circulating Library and Reading Room (1809), built here a three-story brick dwelling known as Williams Castle. The present day house was built upon the...
Port City Architecture

Salvation Army Building
The Wilmington chapter of the Salvation Army was organized in 1887. After operating in various locations, this Mediterranean style building was the first to be constructed for the organization at a cost of $30,000. The cornerstone was laid April...
Port City Architecture

Southern Express Building
Renaissance style building constructed for Colonel Kenneth M. Murchison (1831-1904), businessman and banker, who leased it to the Southern Express Company, a railway delivery service. Building sold in 1913 to Wilmington Star Company, newspaper...
Port City Architecture

Strange-Simmons House
Rental house built for Florence Rogers Strange (1865-1953), widow of Thomas Wright Strange (1855-1899). Altered to duplex by Byron R. Simmons (1896-1972), interior decorator; and wife, Frances Lewis (1896-1988). For thirty-two years, first floor...
Port City Architecture

Interior of Lumina Dancing Pavilion at Night, Wrightsville Beach, Near Wilmington, N.C.
Dancing
This divided back postcard features a handcolored photograph which captures people dancing on the ballroom floor of the Lumina Pavilion at Wrightsville Beach.
Postcard Collections

Dancing at the Lumina Ballroom
ballrooms, ballroom dancing, Lumina Ballroom, Wrightsville Beach, Consolidated Power Company
The Lumina ballroom was located on the second floor of Lumina and was doubled in size by the Consolidated Power Company in 1909.
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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