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    • Princess Street - 200 block.

    • Princess Street - 200 block.

    • Princess Street, Feast of Pirates, Robber's Row

    • The north side of the block contains a number of business establishments of interest. The Barrel Cleaners was owned by Tassie N. Costello, a native of Greece, who continued at the same location until the 1970s. Next to the cleaners is the Wilder...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • Belevedere Plantation Auction

    • Belevedere Plantation Auction

    • speaker,subdivisions, seller, buyers, land, houses, country clubs, golf courses, Pender County, Hampstead, North Carolina, waterfront property, water access

    • Auctioneer Hal Hines, up front, auctions real estate at Belvedere Plantation to a crowd of men & women seated mostly in folding chairs under a large striped tent.
    • Star-News Image Archive
    • Gore Building

    • Gore Building
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    • Commercial structure built as rental property for Daniel Lennox Gore (1847-1925), native of Columbus County, Confederate veteran, and real estate investor. The first tenant, Pickard-Bleecker Automobile Company, sold and serviced Chalmers motor...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Larrington

    • Larrington
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    • Greek Revival style house built for Diana Larrington (1804-1886) and her children. Moved north on lot and extended by Henry C. Bear (1878-1925), real estate developer, who owned the property from 1913 to 1918.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Latimer-Waddell House

    • Latimer-Waddell House
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    • Italianate style house built for William Latimer (1852-1923), industrialist. In 1886 deeded to Ellen Savage (1842-1898), second wife of Alfred Moore Waddell (1834-1912), U. S. Congressman, Mayor of Wilmington, orator and historian. Purchased in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Mahler House

    • Mahler House
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    • Craftsman style two family dwelling built for Carl Peter Barthold Mahler (1874-1956), real estate and rental agent, and wife Meta Brunjes (1868-1957), during their ownership of the DeRosset property to the west. Natives of Germany, they lived here...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Mahler Office

    • Mahler Office
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    • Built as real estate office by Carl Peter Barthold Mahler (1874-1956), realtor, builder. Rented after c.1917 to a succession of small businesses. Mahler and wife. Meta Brunjes (1868-1957), natives of Hannover, Germany, lived in the deRosset house...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Meares Harriss House

    • Meares Harriss House
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    • Prairie style house built for Meares Harriss, Sr. (1884-1941); and wife, Fanny Hines Johnson (1878-1931). He was owner of Harriss Typewriting & Advertising Co., real estate broker and charter member of the Wilmington Rotary Club. Second wife, Laura...
    • 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
    • Shrier Building

    • Shrier Building
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    • Commercial building constructed as rental property for Isaac Shrier (1841-1920), native of Germany, clothier and real estate investor; and wife, Betsy Willner (1850-1916), native of Austria. Rented by various tenants, including the Telegraph-Cable...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Andrew Smith House

    • Andrew Smith House
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    • Italianate style house built for Andrew Smith (1849-1907). A native of Sweden, he was a partner in Smith & Hanson, ship chandlers. Later engaged in real estate and brick manufacture. His wife, Lisette Miller (1853-1930), was a native of Hannover,...
    • 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
    • Brown-Weathersbee House

    • Brown-Weathersbee House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Thomas Edwin Brown (1879-1958), treasurer, Southern Mutual Home & Real Estate Co.; and wife, Ellen Corbett (1886-1976). Purchased in 1934 by Ransey Weathersbee (1883-1969), native of Aiken, SC, dentist; and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Wallace-Vanlandingham House

    • Wallace-Vanlandingham House
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    • Craftsman bungalolw built on speculation by Oliver T. Wallace (1883-1930), native of Kentucky, real estate developer and vice-president of Home Building & Loan Association. Purchased in 1916 by Chester G. Vanlandingham (1887-1951), native of...
    • 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
    • Barker-O'Connor House

    • Barker-O'Connor House
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    • Queen Anne style house built as investment property for E. Gerry Barker (1850-1933), native of Onondaga County, NY, commission merchant; and wife, Alice M. Schonwald (1850-1932). Purchased in 1904 by Major Daniel O'Connor (1834-1925); and wife,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Northrop-Graham House

    • Northrop-Graham House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Robert Houston Northrop (1872-1949), manager of J.G. Wright & Son, real estate, and secretary-treasurer of Southeastern Realty; and wife, Mary Wright (1874-1923). Purchased in 1917 by Benjamin Robinson...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Nathan Cottage

    • Nathan Cottage
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    • Neoclassical Revival style cottage built as investment property for Aaron A. Nathan (1851-1920), native of columbia, South Carolina; and wife, Jeanette Schloss (1858-1929), native of Warrenton, North Carolina. He was a real estate investor and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Louis J. Poisson House

    • Louis J. Poisson House
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    • Late Italianate style house built for Louis J. Poisson (1860-1891), real estate broker; and wife, Mary Allen (1866-1960), native of Brockville, Ontario, Canada. From 1905 to 1916, the home of Brooke Gwathmey Empie, attorney, state senator and...
    • Port City Architecture

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