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    • deRosset House

    • deRosset House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for Armand John deRosset (1808-1897), physician and merchant; and wife, Eliza Jane Lord (1812-1876). They added the northeast wing in 1854 and the Italianate cornice and conservatory in 1874. Purchased in 1882 by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Vance Alley

    • Vance Alley
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    • Named for Samuel Vance (d. 1805), merchant, who owned the property on the south side of the alley. His widow, Mary Walker (1768-1820), operated a boarding house here, "a mecca for young immigrants from the North." Inherited by daughter, Jane...
    • Port City Architecture
    • 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
    • Fennell-Croom House

    • Fennell-Croom House
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    • Built by former Confederate Army Captain, Owen J. Fennell (1832-1910) as his residence. He was a local merchant and Justice of the Peace. Purchased by M.F. Croom in 1892 and remodeled. Remained in family until 1931.
    • Port City Architecture
    • George R. French & Sons Building

    • George R. French & Sons Building
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    • Wilmingtons first iron-front and steel-frame structure, built for George Reade French (1802-1889), native of Massachusetts, boot and shoe merchant. George R. French & Sons, established in 1822, was continued by William A. French (1835-1907) and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Gause-Bolles House

    • Gause-Bolles House
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    • Built by Samuel P. Gause (1818-1875), a Wilmington merchant. Sold in 1863 to John Van Sickle (1808-1869), tobacconist. After death of his widow Anna, in 1870, house sold at public auction to Mary McRee Walker Hill. In 1887, it passed to her heir,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Gilchrist House

    • Gilchrist House
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    • Queen Anne style house built by E. William Gilchrist (1850-1928) native of Richmond County, NC, commission merchant and a founder of Acme Manufacturing Co. Interior Colonial Revival alterations were made in 1913 after plans drawn by Alex Morton...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Ballard-Potter-Bellamy House

    • Ballard-Potter-Bellamy House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for Jethro Ballard (1802-1853), merchant and steam saw mill owner; and wife, Martha P. Nolan (b. 1816). Purchased in 1851 by Samuel R. Potter (1811-1856), planter; and wife, Marion Babcock (1825-1885), who added...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Grant-Howell House

    • Grant-Howell House
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    • Italianate style house built for James Grant (1818-1892), merchant and native of Lenoir Co.; and wife, Keziah Stephens (1820-1893). Purchased in 1868 by Andrew J. Howell (1829-1911). Eastern one third of house demolished in 1913. Home of Rev....
    • Port City Architecture
    • 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
    • Grant-Bellamy House

    • Grant-Bellamy House
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    • Core of house built by James Grant (1818-1892), merchant. Owned by James M. Thompson family 1947-1890. Extensively remodeled and enlarged in Queen Anne style by Robert R. Bellamy (1861-1926), wholesale druggist, for rental use. Remained in family...
    • 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
    • Parker-Saunders House

    • Parker-Saunders House
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    • Greek Revival style house built for John A. Parker (1819-1875), house, sign and ship painter; and wife, M.A. Alway (1826-1861). Owned by Charles H. Robinson (1831-1917), commission merchant; and wife, Elizabeth White (1837-1903) from 1871 to 1904....
    • Port City Architecture
    • Northrop-Oldham House

    • Northrop-Oldham House
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    • Federal style house built for Isaac Northrop (1796-1862), native of Connecticut, owner of tanning and currying business; and wife, Susan Harriss (1812-1862). Remained in family until 1869. Purchased in 1910 by Captain William P. Oldham (1836-1918)....
    • 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
    • David Reid Murchison House

    • David Reid Murchison House
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    • Second Empire style house built for David Reid Murchison (1837-1882), native of Cumberland County, commission merchant, first President of the Produce Exchange; and wife, Lucy Wooster Wright (1850-1913). Donated in 1953 by daughter, Lucille...
    • Port City Architecture
    • William Rand Kenan House

    • William Rand Kenan House
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    • Built for William Rand Kenan (1845-1903), native of Duplin County, Confederate officer, commander of the Wilmington Light Infantry, collector of the port of Wilmington and wholesale merchant; and wife, Mary Hargrave (1842-1916), native of Orange...
    • 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
    • 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

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