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    • Morse-Willard-Rhodes House

    • Morse-Willard-Rhodes House
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    • Front section of house built on adjacent lot by Christopher C. Morse (1824-1891), grocer. Moved and enlarged in Queen Anne style for Martin Stevenson Willard (1858-1933), insurance agent and president of Willard Bag and Manufacturing Company. ...
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    • Rush-Steljes Building

    • Rush-Steljes Building
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    • Greek Revival style store with residence above, built for Antonio Rush (1814-1896), grocer; and wife, Emiline Louisa Silva (1830-1906), both of Portuguese descent. Owned by German born Diedrich Steljes (1833-1902), grocer; and wife, Mary Frances...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Evans-Moore House

    • Evans-Moore House
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    • Queen Anne style house built as rental property for Allen E. Evans (1833-1882), grocer, barber and leader of the Rose Bud Brass Band; and wife, Charlotte Jackson (1838-1888). Purchased and remodeled in 1918 by E. Clayton Moore (1877-1940), native...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Heide-Futch House

    • Heide-Futch House
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    • Neen; and wife, Catherine Exum (1834-1891). Purchased in 1898 by John W. H. Fuchs (1871-1938), grocer and proprietor of Futchs Department Store; and wife, Mary C. M. Strunck (1873-1932), natives of Germany, who Americanized their surname to...
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    • 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...
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    • W.I. Gore House

    • W.I. Gore House
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    • Italianate style house built as residence by William Iredell Gore (1829-1903); and wife, Rachael Litchfield (1833-1914). He was a wholesale grocer, commission merchant and during the Civil War, an officer in the Waccamaw Light Artillery. Saved...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Kennedy-Forehand House

    • Kennedy-Forehand House
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    • Queen Anne style house built as rental property for Lorenzo D. Kennedy (c. 1850-1921), grocer and baker; and wife, Sarah J. Nash (born c. 1853). Purchased in 1945 by John Lee Forehand (1906-1992), native of Charleston, West Virginia, laborer; and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Kuck House

    • Kuck House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for John Henry Kuck (1865-1947), grocer, ships store merchant, owner of Wilmington Hosiery Mills; and wife, Dena Dorothy Bokelmann (1875-1965). They were natives of Hannover, Germany. Remained in family until 1948....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Larkins House

    • Larkins House
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    • Family residence of William Larkins (1829-1891), Wilmington native, wholesale grocer & liquor dealer, cashier of First National Bank, and rice planter. House sold in 1903 to Samuel Behrends, merchant and furniture store owner, in whose family it...
    • 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
    • Mosley House

    • Mosley House
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    • Some interior framing and architectural features survive from early structure built for William Mosley (1812-1895), businessman; and wife, Margaret Mills (1824-1870s). Enlarged and altered in Queen Anne style when inherited by Levi McKoy Mosley...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Benton House

    • Benton House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for William Fulton Benton (b.1884), meat cutter and grocer; and wife, Winnie S. (b. 1886). Owned by Weathers family from 1924 to 1979.
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    • McClammy-Powell House

    • McClammy-Powell House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Richard Price McClammy (1874-1955), editor and publisher of The Evening Dispatch; and wife, Janie L. Bryan (1876-1918). Purchased in 1948 by Pender County natives, Carl Flay Powell, Sr. (1906-1990),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Parmele-Williams House

    • Parmele-Williams House
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    • Interior framing and roof survive from early structure built for Anthony Adrian Wanet (1782-1871), native of France, merchant and planter. Purchased in 1868 by Sarah A. Bailey (1832-1916), wife of Charles H. Parmele (1828-1870), grocer. Altered in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Philander Pearsall House

    • Philander Pearsall House
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    • Queen Anne style house built on Sunset Hill for Philander Pearsall (1855-1937), native of Duplin County, wholesale grocer; and wife, Mary Moore Brown (1861-1952), native of West Virginia, civic leader. Purchased in 1944 by Elijah O. Hewlett...
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    • May-Willson House

    • May-Willson House
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    • Italianate style cottage built by Captain Alexander May (1810-1879), a Frenchman, sea captain and wholesale grocer. Sold in 1878 to William Willson (1800-1879), superintendent of Chadbourns Lumber Mill; and wife, Sarah E. (1818-1889) who renovated...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Sheehan-Davis House

    • Sheehan-Davis House
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    • Built as rental property for John Sheehan (1870-1912), superintendent of transportation, Tidewater Power Co.; and brother, William Sheehan (1859-1915), grocer; and Williamss wife, Mary Elder (1870-1954). Purchased in 1939 by Charles Henry Davis...
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    • Thomas Smith House

    • Thomas Smith House
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    • Italianate style house built by Thomas H. Smith (1833-1887), grocer, native of England. Bought in 1892 by Rachel Letchfield Gore (1833-1914). Her son Albert Gore (1858-1895), merchant; and wife, Bessie Ledford (1865-1934), lived here. Bessie, who...
    • Port City Architecture
    • John Allan Taylor House

    • John Allan Taylor House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for John Allan Taylor (1862-1941), wholesale grocer, business and civic leader; and wife, May Baker French (1863-1957), native of Lumberton, NC. Remained in family until 1969.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Brockett-Barker-Bell House

    • Brockett-Barker-Bell House
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    • Cottage built for James F. Brockett, grocer and watchmaker; and wife, Elizabeth Cruse. E. Gerry Barker, shipbroker, enlarged and remodeled the house in Queen Anne style, c. 1888. Owned by Charles F. Bell family from 1897 to 1982.
    • Port City Architecture

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