New Hanover County Public Library Digital Archives

St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
Late Gothic Revival style church built for St. Andrews Presbyterian congregation. Sunday School annex (1910-1911) given by William H. Sprunt (1857-1939). In 1944, congregation merged with Church of the Covenant at Fifteenth and Market streets....
Port City Architecture

View of New Hanover High School, Trinity Methodist Church and St. Andrews-Covenant Presbyterian Church from Pembroke Jones Park.
New Hanover High School, Schools, Trinity Methodist Church, Churches, St. Andrews- Covenant Presbyterian Church, Pembroke Jones Park, Market Street
Trinity Methodist Church was organized in August, 1889, as the Market Street Methodist Mission. The church met in Giblem Lodge at Eighth and Princess streets, but soon moved to a church at Ninth and Market streets. In 1920, the church hired Leslie...
Louis T. Moore Collection

South Front and Orange streets, looking north.
S. Front Street, Orange Street
At left, on the corner of South Front and Orange Streets is the Stemmerman Building, formerly owned by Claus Stemmerman (1825-1892), a native of Beverstedt, Hannover, Germany. He operated a grocery store on this corner from 1860 until his death in...
Louis T. Moore Collection

Bellamy Mansion Tours (3)
Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Historic district, historical houses, John D. Bellamy, slave quarters, museum, tourist attraction, antebellum architecture, tours
Photograph of the front of the Bellamy Mansion taken from across Market St. near the corner of 5th and Market St. House needs painting and repair work. A sign that says "Bellamy Mansion 1859 open" is attached to one of the large white colums near...
Star-News Image Archive

Fifth Avenue Methodist Church
Neo-Gothic style church built for congregation organized in 1847 to serve residents in the southern section of the city. This building, which replaced an earlier wooden structure, was dedicated on September 26, 1890. The education building, erected...
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

Temple of Israel
Moorish Revival style synagogue built for German Jewish Reform congregation that was organized in 1872. it is the oldest synagogue in North Carolina and one of the few in the United States still housed in its original nineteenth century building.
Port City Architecture

St. Stephen A.M.E. Church
Late Gothic Revival style church built for African Methodist Episcopal congregation organized in 1865. Contractor and church member Lewis Hollingsworth designed the building. Other congregants worked as master carpenters and masons. Notable...
Port City Architecture

St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
The congregation was organized in 1858 by immigrants from Northern Germany. Plan of the Gothic Revival style church is attributed to charter member Hanke Vollers. Construction began in 1859. The unfinished building was damaged by occupying...
Port City Architecture

St. Marks Episcopal Churck
This congregation, organized in 1869, was the first Episcopal Church consecrated by Bishop Atkinson for colored people in North Carolina, on June 18, 1875. The cornerstone was laid on March 23, 1871, and the edifice was completed under the...
Port City Architecture

St. Marks Episcopal Church
This congregation, organized in 1869, was the first Episcopal Church consecrated by Bishop Atkinson for colored people in North Carolina, on June 18, 1875. The cornerstone was laid on March 23, 1871, and the edifice was completed under the...
Port City Architecture

First Baptist Church
Gothic Revival style church built for Baptist congregation organized in 1808. Construction began under pastorate of the Reverend John L. Prichard (1811-1862), who died during the Yellow Fever epidemic. The building was completed and dedicated five...
Port City Architecture

Chestnut Street Presbyterian Church
Carpenter Gothic and Italianate style building constructed in 1858 as mission chapel of First Presbyterian Church. From 1858 to 1866 known as Second Presbyterian Church. Purchased by the congregation of First Colored Presbyterian Church in 1866....
Port City Architecture

Flood After Rainfall, Trinity Methodist Church, New Hanover High School, Early 1920s
floods, New Hanover High School, churches, Trinity Methodist Church
Wilmington High School, located in the Tileston School building at Fifth and Ann streets, was formerly replaced by New Hanover High School when the first classs graduated in 1922. With an enrollment of 840 students it was the largest high school in...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

First Church of Christ Scientist
churches, Christ Scientist, 17th Street, Market Street, Temple Baptist Church, Baptist churches
The First Church of Christ Scientist, located on the Southeast corner of 17th and Market Streets, was constructed in 1907. The first congregation was organized by Mary Bridgers (1866-1910), a devout founding member who purchased 32 acres of land on...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Cape Fear Club
social clubs, Wilmington, North Carolina, Cape Fear Club
Organized in 1852, the Cape Fear Club is reputed to be the oldest gentlemen's club in the South in continuous existence. The building, which was the James Dawson House located on the Northwest corner of Front and Chestnut Streets, was sold to the...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Hanover Seaside Club 2
Clubs, beaches, Atlantic Ocean
Another view of the Hanover Seaside Club (organized by German immigrants in 1898) at Carolina Beach. A couple of visitors stand on the 1st floor porch. In 1906 the club moved to Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

The Cape Fear Club with Snow
private clubs, men's clubs, Cape Fear Club
The Cape Fear Club is on the Southeast corner of Second and Chestnut streets and is the oldest gentlemen’s club in the South in continuous existence, having been organized in 1852 and reorganized after the Civil War in 1866.
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Dr. Bill Dineen
Dineen family, Seger family, Johnson family, physicians, Sports Medicine
Dr. James Robert Dineen (1921-), son of James Jay and Marguerite C. Dineen, was born in Corning, N.Y., September 24th, 1921. He was married to Dorothy Seger, whom he divorced, and married his second wife, Miss Frances Johnson. He attended...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

Boys Brigade Armory
Boys Clubs, Church Street, Second Street, Boys Brigade
Boys Brigade Armory was built in 1904 and was an organization for underprivileged boys. It was organized and funded by local businessmen including Colonel Walker Taylor. It was a gift from Mary Lily Kenan as a memorial to her brother William Rand...
Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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