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    • Parrish Caine Brakes Sign

    • Parrish Caine Brakes Sign

    • Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, advertisements, Kettle pancake, Bullard State Farm insurance, Bradley & Smith realty, Ernie's hair salon, Frontier, school buses, delivery truck, beauty shops, speed limit 45 sign, Wesley Memorial...

    • Shows billboards, restaurants, realtors, insurance companies and traffic at the intersection of Oleander Dr. and College Rd. [looking towards UNC-W].
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03085

    • Azalea Festival and Queens\03085

    • Azalea Festival

    • A Chrystler automobile pulls one of the floats along North 3rd Street during the Azalea Festival Parade circa 1960. A large crowd gathers in front of several businesses including Pickards Sporting Goods, Jewell-Strickland Auto Parts Co., a used...
    • Azalea Festival Collection
    • Hopkins House

    • Hopkins House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Benjamin T. Hopkins (1870-1961), native of Accomac, VA and district manager of Life Insurance Company of Virginia; and wife, Josephine Kelley (1874-1953), native of New Jersey. Purchased in 1959 by Edwin B....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Gwaltney-Martin House

    • Gwaltney-Martin House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Robert Howell Gwaltney (1878-1939), native of Raleigh, NC, manager of Jefferson Standard Life Insurance, Co.; and wife, Octavia Boatwright (1880-1964). Purchased in 1914 by Eugene Stuart Martin...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Miles Costin House

    • Miles Costin House
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    • Italianate style house built for Miles Costin (c. 1800-1873), planter, commission merchant and town commissioner; and wife, Catherine (c. 1809-1874). Mrs. Robt Ransoms Female Seminary operated here in 1871. Acquired in 1885 by John Wilder Atkinson...
    • 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
    • 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. ...
    • Port City Architecture
    • McGhee House

    • McGhee House
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    • Residence built for Henry McGhee (1869-1918), cook; and wife, Elizabeth Whitehead (1873-1931). Three of their eleven children remained in the house after their parents deaths: Hettie, a seamstress; Mozelle, a Peabody School teacher; and Lisbon...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Pulliam House

    • Pulliam House
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    • Shingled cottage built for Stone Cowan Pulliam (1892-1979), insurance agent and secretary of board of fire underwriters; and wife, Lucille Erambert Skinner (1892-1973). Remained in family for fifty years.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Shaw-Sellers House

    • Shaw-Sellers House
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    • Craftsman style house built for Addie M. and Henry B. Shaw, clerk with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Purchased in 1946 by Theodore Sellars (1902-1966), native of Duplin County, owner of Sellars & Greer, Inc., insurance and real estate; and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Smith-Sternberger House

    • Smith-Sternberger House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Joseph David Smith (1857-1935), secretary-treasurer of J.F. Garrell & Company, insurance; and wife Alice Garrell (b. 1864). Purchased in 1903 by Julius Sternberger (1871-1933), of Sternberger Brothers,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Southern Express Building

    • Southern Express Building
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    • 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
    • Colonel Walker Taylor House

    • Colonel Walker Taylor House
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    • Queen Anne style house built for Col. Walker Taylor (1864-1937), owner of insurance agency, civic leader and founder of Brigade Boys Club; and wife, Rosa Lilly Cumming (1873-1946). Owned by Lee Porter (1899-1986), of Lancaster, SC.; and wife, Ethel...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Taylor-Hall House

    • Taylor-Hall House
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    • Dutch Colonial style house built as rental property for Walker Taylor, Sr. (1864-1937), insurance agent; and wife Rosa Lilly Cumming (1873-1946). Residence of Louis E. Hall (1877-1952), secretary-treasurer Hall & Pearsall, wholesale grocers and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Grant-Stevenson House

    • Grant-Stevenson House
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    • North wing, c. 1875, built for Ruben Grant (1810-1880), Methodist minister; and wife, Sarah Ann Dawson (1823-1888). South wing, c. 1872, built for James C. Stevenson (1847-1907), wholesale grocer; and wife, Elizabeth J. Smith (1850-1919). Son,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Taylor-Washington House

    • Taylor-Washington House
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    • Queen Anne style house built as rental property for John E. Taylor (1858-1925), deputy collector of US Customs and realtor. Purchased in 1921 by Edward G. Story, real estate developer and insurance broker; and wife, Mary Ellen Noyes. Inherited by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • James House

    • James House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Eliza Alice Haughton James (1850-1938), native of Pittsboro, NC, widow of Col. Thomas Cowan James (1849-1912). At various times residence of son, J. Marion James (1884-1976), proprietor of James Book and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • J. Haughton James House

    • J. Haughton James House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for J. Haughton James (1886-1939), President of the General Insurance Agency, Inc.; and wife, Isabel Clark (1889-1991). Until 1992 residence of daughter, Isabel (1913- ), President of National Society of the...
    • Port City Architecture

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