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    • Richard Langdon House

    • Richard Langdon House
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    • Federal style house built for Richard Langdon (1753-1810), native of New Hampshire, merchant; and wife, Jane Dunbibin Ward. In 1812, the widow Jane married Samuel Russell Jocelyn (1764-1816), native of Connecticut, attorney. Purchased in 1829, by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bowden House

    • Bowden House
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    • Family Residence of Lemuel Hanry Bowden (1825-1891), native of New Hanover County, lumber inspector and city alderman. Title was transferred (1888) to his daughter Julia Bowden (1859-1944), who married B. Frank Boykin, stockbroker. She continued to...
    • Port City Architecture
    • 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
    • Smith-Gore House

    • Smith-Gore House
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    • Built for James C. Smith, (1830-1888) commission merchant as his residence. In 1853 he married Mary Ann Costin, daughter of Miles Costin. The property remained in family until 1890, when purchased by Daniel Lenox Gore and remained in family until...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Sutton-Howey House

    • Sutton-Howey House
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    • Built by Martha Moore Sutton (1764-1838), native of Greenwich, England, and widow of Ephriam Sutton, (1768-1819). Devised by Mrs. Sutton in 1838 to her granddaughter Martha Ann Hedrick (sister of Col. John J. Hedrick, C.S.A.), subject to lifetime...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Brown-Lord House

    • Brown-Lord House
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    • Basement timbers indicate house was here prior to the American Revolution. Robert Wells purchased this property in 1773. John Brown married Annabella Wells and lived here for many years. Property inherited by Columbia Brown Lord in 1857. Remained...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Richard Langdon House

    • Richard Langdon House
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    • Federal style house built for Richard Langdon (1753-1810), native of New Hampshire, merchant; and wife, Jane Dunbibin Ward. In 1812, the widow Jane married Samuel Russell Jocelyn (1764-1816), native of Connecticut, attorney. Purchased in 1829, by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bowden-Boykin House

    • Bowden-Boykin House
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    • Italianate style house built for Lemuel Henry Bowden (1825-1891), lumber inspector and city alderman; and wife, Mary Jane Flournoy Jacobs (1822-1888). Given to daughter, Julia Augusta Bowden (1859-1944), in 1888. She married Bias Franklin Boykin...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Chadbourn House

    • Chadbourn House
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    • Built by James H. Chadbourn for his daughter, Frances Chadbourn, who married Dr. Jack Stanley, dentist. Robert Ruark (1915-1965), newspaper journalist and novelist, spent part of his childhood here.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Portrait of Susan Kidder Meares

    • Portrait of Susan Kidder Meares
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    • Portrait of Susan Kidder Meares in a white dress with the caption, “I have come to bring you an Easter Greeting” written on the bottom. Meares (1870-1955) was the daughter of Wilmington resident Walker Meares. She married Theodore P. Lovering...
    • Lovering Collection
    • Portrait of a Young Woman

    • Portrait of a Young Woman
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    • This portrait is probably of actress Daisy Lovering (1869-1950), aunt of Helen and Susan Lovering. She toured with the Mason and Morgan Duo, performing in cities such as Cass City, Michigan in 1888. She was a head member of the ensemble for the...
    • Lovering Collection
    • Daisy Lovering in Costume

    • Daisy Lovering in Costume

    • acress, theatre, stage, costume

    • Daisy Lovering (1869-1950), aunt of Helen and Susan Lovering, was an actress who performed in theatres around the country. She toured with the Mason and Morgan Duo, performing in cities such as Cass City, Michigan in 1888. She was a head member...
    • Lovering Collection
    • Postcard from Daisy Lovering

    • Postcard from Daisy Lovering

    • actress, Hollywood, postcard

    • Front of a postcard from Daisy Lovering to her neices Helen and Susan Lovering. The postcard features an illustration of actress Deanna Durbin's Hollywood home. The reverse side gives Daisy's new address. Daisy (1869-1950) was an actress who...
    • Lovering Collection
    • Portrait of Daisy Lovering from Rear

    • Portrait of Daisy Lovering from Rear

    • actress, studio portrait, theatre

    • Daisy Lovering (1869-1950), aunt of Helen and Susan Lovering, was an actress who performed in theatres around the country. She toured with the Mason and Morgan Duo, performing in cities such as Cass City, Michigan in 1888. She was a head member...
    • Lovering Collection
    • Daisy Lovering in Male Costume

    • Daisy Lovering in Male Costume

    • actress, theatre, stage, costume

    • Studio portrait of Daisy Lovering dressed as a man, with “As I walk along” written across the front. Lovering (1869-1950), aunt of Helen and Susan Lovering, was an actress who performed in theatres around the country. She toured with the...
    • Lovering Collection
    • Daisy Lovering in Male Costume Holding Hat

    • Daisy Lovering in Male Costume Holding Hat

    • actress, theatre, stage, costume

    • Studio portrait of actress Daisy Lovering dressed as a man, with “When pogo was a boy” written across the front. Daisy Lovering (1869-1950), aunt of Helen and Sue Lovering, performed in theatres around the country. She toured with the Mason...
    • Lovering Collection
    • Headshot of Daisy Lovering

    • Headshot of Daisy Lovering

    • actress, theatre, studio portrait

    • Daisy Lovering (1869-1950), aunt of Helen and Susan Lovering, was an actress who performed in theatres around the country. She toured with the Mason and Morgan Duo, performing in cities such as Cass City, Michigan in 1888. She was a head member...
    • Lovering Collection
    • Airlie Gardens - Azaleas around lake.

    • Airlie Gardens - Azaleas around lake.

    • Airlie Gardens, Azaleas, Lake

    • By 1910, Pembroke Jones (1858-1919) had acquired considerable acreage on the north shore of Bradley Creek. Jones was a wealthy man, who married Sadie Wharton Green (1859-1943). He named his property, "Airlie," after an English estate of the same...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Airlie Gardens - Lake.

    • Airlie Gardens - Lake.

    • Airlie Gardens, Lake

    • By 1910, Pembroke Jones (1858-1919) had acquired considerable acreage on the north shore of Bradley Creek. Jones was a wealthy man, who married Sadie Wharton Green (1859-1943). He named his property, "Airlie," after an English estate of the same...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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