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    • Foy-Taylor House

    • Foy-Taylor House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built as investment property for Newton Fisher (1889-1951). Purchased in 1923 by Norwood Leslie Foy (1891-1990), native of Scotts Hill, NC, partner in Foy-Roe & Company, retail clothing; and wife, Elizabeth Southerland...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Heide-Futch House

    • Heide-Futch House
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    • Neen; and wife, Catherine Exum (1834-1891). Purchased in 1898 by John W. H. Fuchs (1871-1938), grocer and proprietor of Futchs Department Store; and wife, Mary C. M. Strunck (1873-1932), natives of Germany, who Americanized their surname to...
    • Port City Architecture
    • The Glenn Restaurant

    • The Glenn Restaurant
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    • Commercial building constructed for Esther Naomi Mintz Yopp (1891-1972) and built by contractor, Sam Blake. Occupied by various restaurants from 1947 to 1969. Building remains in family.
    • Port City Architecture
    • St. Johns Lodge

    • St. Johns Lodge
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    • Transitional Georgian-Federal style structure built for St. John's Lodge No. 1, Ancient Your Masons, and shared by Concord Chapter; Masonic mural (c. 1809) remains. Purchased in 1824 by Thomas W. Brown (1803-1872), silversmith and jeweler, who...
    • Port City Architecture
    • King-Williams House

    • King-Williams House
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    • Bungalow built by Tide Water Power Company for F. Lacy King (1889-1947), Vice President-Operations for Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; and wife Lillian Taylor (1890-1990), native of Virginia. Purchased in 1944 by John Cleon Williams, co-founder and...
    • 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
    • J.W. Murchison House

    • J.W. Murchison House
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    • French eclectic style house built for Joel Williams Murchison (1853-1926), founder of J. W. Murchison Co., wholesale hardware; and wife, Loulie Hay Atkinson (1860-1922). Front and south porches removed c.1933 and entry added. House remains in the...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Newton-Millinor House

    • Newton-Millinor House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Southport natives, Joseph Stokes Newton (1874-1958), stevedore; and wife, Daisy Burriss (1876-1950). Purchased in 1956 by Maurice Lee Millinor (1924- ), auto mechanic with C.C. Grissom & Sons; and wife,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • William B. McKoy House

    • William B. McKoy House
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    • Stick style house built as a residence for W.B. McKoy, (1852-1928), attorney and Past Grand Master of Masons of NC; and wife, Katherine Bacon (1858-1949). Home of daughter Elizabeth Francenia McKoy, (1887-1984), local historian, researcher, and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Warshauer House

    • Warshauer House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style duplex designed and built as residence by Max Warshauer (1880-1949), native of Lithuania, merchant; and wife, Clara Goldstein (1895-1991). Property remains in family.
    • Port City Architecture
    • John C. Williams House

    • John C. Williams House
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    • Bungalow built as rental property by Tide Water Power Company. Purchased in 1944 by John Cleon Williams (1905-1979), co-founder and owner of Williams Cleaners, native of Columbus County; and wife, Saleima Floyd (1907-1998), native of Robeson...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Browne-Stanley House

    • Browne-Stanley House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Richmond, Virginia natives, Otway Leon Browne (1874-1970), Assistant Purchasing Agent for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; and wife, Annie Gertrude Rogers (1875-1954). Purchased in 1964 by Shelton Smith...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Platt-Sutherland House

    • Platt-Sutherland House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built for Robert C. Platt (1870-1953), retail clothing merchant and clerk in city auditor's office; and wife Robbie Sutton (1881-1966), native of Burgaw. Purchased in 1961 by William Owen Sheppard Sutherland (1890-1969),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bridgers-Fulenwider House

    • Bridgers-Fulenwider House
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    • Neoclassical Revival style house built for Burke Haywood Bridgers (1881-1972), attorney; and wife, Helen Strange (1888-1953). At the time of death he was the oldest member of the Cape Fear Country Club where he designed the original 18 hole...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Davis-Warshauer House

    • Davis-Warshauer House
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    • Bungalow built as investment property for Dewey Hobson Davis of D.H. Furniture; and wife, Madeline Malbrant Poulifiant, native of France. Purchased in 1938 by Clara Goldstein Warshauer (1895-1991); and husband, Max Warshauer (1880-1949), native of...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Shore Acres House

    • Shore Acres House
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    • Mediterranean style house built as model home for Shore Acres Company, Roger Moore and Oliver T. Wallace, developers, Luther T. Rogers, contractor. From 1932 to 1969 owned by Roger Moore (1879-1968); and wife, Alice Borden (1881-1954). He was...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Vollers-Hardin-Walker House

    • Vollers-Hardin-Walker House
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    • Queen Anne style house built by and for Louis Henry Vollers (1862-1943), native of Point Caswell, building contractor; and wife, Susan A. Barnhhill (1862-1942). Purchased in 1900 by John Haywood Hardin (1853-1932), native of Washington, D.C.,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Allen-Collier House

    • Allen-Collier House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Fulton Temple Allen (1868-1941), secretary-treasurer of Acme Fertilizer Company; and wife, Anna Bell Pearce (1870-1948), natives of Virginia. Purchased in 1963 by Joshua Frank Collier (1902-1965), realtor,...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Capt. Tuck

    • Capt. Tuck

    • Cape Fear River, Eagles Island, Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, Capt. Tuck, Boats

    • This color photograph shows what remains of the tugboat, Capt. Tuck, settled along the Brunswick side of the Cape Fear River.
    • Wilmington Harbor Collection
    • National Cemetery.

    • National Cemetery.

    • National Cemetery, Cemeteries, Graves

    • The old caretakers' lodge with the mansard roof is to the left (looking northwest). Burials were first made in this cemetery, located on Market Street at North Twentieth Street, in February, 1867. It contains the remains of those Union soldiers who...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection

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