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Title
Third
Street
,
south
-
0 and
100
blocks
,
west
side
.
Subject
Third
Street
,
Wooster
,
Bridgers
Description
At
right
is
the
Wooster
House
on the
northwest
corner
of
Third
and
Dock
streets
.
Across
Dock
Street
on the
southwest
corner
is
the
imposing
stone
Bridgers
House
.
Behind
the
tree
in the
center
of the
plaza
is
the
Confederate
Memorial
,
designed
by
Henry
Bacon
and
donated
to the
City
of
Wilmington
by
Gabriel
Boney
.
(Also
see
#29)
. The
Wooster
House
at
20
South
Third
Street
was
built
by
John
Wooster
in
1845
.
Originally
, the
house
faced
Dock
Street
,
where
a
porch
projected
over
the
sidewalk
. By
1913
,
when
the
house
was
owned
by
S
.
M
.
Boatwright
, the
porch
became
a
traffic
hazard
. The
Wilmington
City
Council
ordered
the
piazza
to be
removed
,
after
which
the
house
was
reoriented
from
Dock
Street
to
Third
.
Another
Neoclassical
Revival
porch
was
built
as an
entrance
on
Third
Street
.
Across
Dock
Street
from the
Wooster
House
is
the
Bridgers
House
at
100
South
Third
Street
. The
handsome
house
was
built
in
1905
by
Mrs
.
Elizabeth
Eagle
Haywood
Bridgers
.
Charles
McMillen
was the
Architect
and
Joseph
Schad
, the
contractor
of the
massive
stone
structure
, in the
Neoclassical
Revival
style
.
Source
Louis T. Moore Collection 141
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