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    • Chestnut Street - 200 block.

    • Chestnut Street - 200 block.

    • Chestnut Street, N. Second Street, Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood

    • A black vendor is in front of the Dr. Thomas Fanning Wood house on the northeast corner of Second and Chestnut Street. Dr. Wood and his son, Dr. Edward Jenner Wood (1878-1928), shared offices on the ground floor of this building. Dr. Thomas Wood...
    • Louis T. Moore Collection
    • English Steamer

    • English Steamer

    • commodities, crops, Cape Fear River, exports, steamers, businesses, warehouses

    • Bales of cotton being brought in and hoisted onto a ship at Alexander Sprunt and Son on Nutt St. Men can be seen on the wharf and on the ship. Sprunt was one of the largest cotton exporters in the South. The company also operated the Champion...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Martindale House

    • Martindale House
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    • Built by Henry Martindale (1796-1874), planter, as family residence. His son, Henry Alexander Martindale (1837-1911), truck farmer, made additions to house. Inherited by his daughter, Rebecca Martindale Johnson (1870-1948). House remained in...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Wessel-Harper House

    • Wessel-Harper House
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    • Built by Jacob Wessel (1814-1887). Later owned by Captain James Thomas Harper, 1895. Inherited by son, Charles T. Harper, M.D (1904-1913), also his daughter Mary Harper Darby (1913-1957). Preserved by the Housing Authority of the City of Wilmington...
    • Port City Architecture
    • High House

    • High House
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    • Bungalow built as wedding gift by Asa Haynes High for son Daniel Pinckney High (1886-1926), native of Columbus County, N C, dentist; and wife, Janet Poag (1883-1971), native of Lancaster, SC. House remained in family until 1986.
    • Port City Architecture
    • James House

    • James House
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    • Colonial Revival style house built for Eliza Alice Haughton James (1850-1938), native of Pittsboro, NC, widow of Col. Thomas Cowan James (1849-1912). At various times residence of son, J. Marion James (1884-1976), proprietor of James Book and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Yopp-Costello Building

    • Yopp-Costello Building
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    • Commercial building constructed as part of a Neoclassical Revival style complex with adjoining properties at 213 and 215 Princess Street. Purchased in 1906 by Walter E. Yopp (1860-1933); and wife, Emma Donnelly (1872-1955), who operated a funeral...
    • Port City Architecture
    • McClellan Livery Building

    • McClellan Livery Building
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    • Commercial building constructed as rental property for the Hanover Trust Company. First used as stables by W.B. McClellan & Son. Other tenants included a variety of automobile dealerships, repair and upholstery; wholesale feeds and groceries; and...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Bradley-Green Building

    • Bradley-Green Building
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    • Commercial building erected for George H. Bradley (1805-1880), native of New Haven, CT, boot and shoe merchant, after devastating fire of 1840 that destroyed much of block. From 1910 to 1963 this was the location of Greens Drug Store, operated by...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Chapman House

    • Chapman House
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    • Cottage built for Sarah E. Chapman (born c. 1807), who resided here with Ivey Prescott Bell (1814-1868), ship carpenter; and wife, Rebecca (1826-1909); and son, Benjamin (1852-1923), co-founder of Jackson & Bell, printers. Purchased in 1927 for...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Thomas C. Miller

    • Thomas C. Miller
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    • Cottage built for Thomas C. Miller (b. 1849), deputy sheriff, realtor and pawn broker. Inherited by son, Thomas Jr. (1874-1939), porter; and wife, Carlotta Harriss (b. 1866). Remained in family until 1947.
    • Port City Architecture
    • Sternberger-Small House

    • Sternberger-Small House
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    • Craftsman style bungalow built by Solomon Sternberger (1870-1945), dry goods merchant, for son, Julius Earl "Jinx" Sternberger (1897-1966), World War I veteran, realtor, director of Carolina Savings & Loan; and wife, Sadibel Simon (1904-1983),...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Wright-Rehder House

    • Wright-Rehder House
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    • Craftsman style house built for Eleanor Gilchrist (1890-1965) and husband, Thomas Henry Wright (1876-1956), partner with his father in J.G. Wright & Son real estate; developers of Winoca Terrace. Purchased in 1921 by C.F.W. (Will) Rehder...
    • Port City Architecture
    • Dr. Andrew Harriss

    • Dr. Andrew Harriss

    • Harriss family, physicians, Obstetricians, Oakdale Cemetery

    • Dr. Andrew Howell Harriss, son of George Harriss and Julia Ophelia Sanders Harriss, was born March 7th, 1872 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He married Miss Mary Montgomery Wilcox Bolles October 14th, 1896. His grandfather, William James Harris was...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection
    • Dr. Auley Crouch, Jr.

    • Dr. Auley Crouch, Jr.

    • Crouch family, physicians, McFales family

    • Dr. Auley McRae Crouch, Jr. (1919-1969), son of Auley McRae and Muriel Lee McFales Crouch, was born in Raleigh, N.C., August 24th, 1919. His father, Auley Sr. and brother, Walter Lee, were also M.D.'s (Ped.) He received his M.D. from Jefferson...
    • Dr. Robert M. Fales Collection

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