schools, downtown, children, Union School, Sixth Street, Ann Street
Union School, NW corner 6th and Ann St. 2nd Public School of City Schools. "Big Union" Mr. John J. Blair (Superintendent), Miss Nellie Cook, Miss Addie Meares, LeGrande Sisters, Miss Maude Kingsbury and Miss Parsley (Teachers)
Murchison Building, First Union Building, N. Front Street
At eleven stories, the Murchison-First Union Building was the tallest structure in Wilmington until the construction of the twelve-story PPD Building in 2007. Built 1913-1914, Wilmington native, Kenneth M. Murchison (1872-1938) of New York, was the...
At eleven stories, the Murchison-First Union Building is the tallest structure in Wilmington. Built 1913-1914, Wilmington native, Kenneth M. Murchison (1872-1938) of New York, was the architect for the Neoclassical Revival building, which...
Railroad tracks, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Train terminals
An aerial view of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Buildings on Front and Red Cross Streets in Wilmington. The Union Station is also visible in the picture. ACL left the city in the 1960's and the Union Station was demolished in 1970.
Confederate, Union, Civil War, hospitals, downtown, S. Front Street, Dock Street
City Seamen's Friend Society Building, 1857, SW corner of Front and Dock Streets. It was a Confederate Base Hospital during Civil War, and later was the Union Hospital after the capture of Wilmington.