Home Tour 2011
April 9th & 10th
1-6pm Saturday
1-5pm Sunday
Tickets
are $25 at Harris Teeter
or $30 Day Of at any of the Homes on the Tour
100 Years of Architecture
In 10 Extraordinary Buildings
Fanning House
Ribbon-cutting venue
206 Orange Street
Enjoy free ice cream during the ribbon-cutting.
Builders, J.C. and R.B. Wood constructed this Italianate style house for Phineas W. Fanning in 1852. Both owner and builders were natives of Nantucket, MA. Fanning was a ship and sign painter as well as a Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina. The Wood brothers came to Wilmington to build St. James Church.
Dan & Lori Camacho
The ribbon-cutting takes place at 12.30pm
Jarman House
1910 Princess Street
John F. and Sallie Ennett Jarman built this Craftsman style house in 1911. A druggist, he owned and operated Jarmans Pharmacy.
Betsy Riviere
Platt-Sutherland House
1710 Chestnut Street
This Craftsman style bungalow, built in 1923, was designed by architect W.J. Wilkins for Robert C. and Robbie Sutton Platt. He was a clothing merchant and clerk in the city auditor's office. In 1961, the house was purchased by William O. and Mary G. Sutherland. He was the chief clerk for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
Connie & Haskell Rhett
Simon House
203 S. 8th Street
Featured in this c.1909 Neoclassical Revival style cottage are pretty ionic columns. By 1910 this house was the residence of George and Emma Simon. A tailor and merchant, he was born in Alsace-Lorraine and she was a native of Germany.
Greg Wessel
Burns-Huggins House
224 N. 7th Street
This Greek Revival style dwelling was built for Owen Burns in 1853. At the time, the house was located in the country two blocks beyond the city limits. It was purchased in 1860 by grocer Luke B. Huggins and wife Phoebe Newbold Huggins. The house remained in their family over 130 years.
Suzanne Stanley
Thomas C. Miller House
309 N. 6th Street
This Queen Ann style cottage was built in 1896 for African American Thomas C. Miller in 1896. He was a successful businessman as well as New Hanover County deputy sheriff during Reconstruction. The house was inherited by his son Thomas Miller, Jr., a railroad porter, and it remained in the family until 1947.
Linda Heath
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
600 Grace Street
This Gothic Revival style Church was built in 1871-1875 for congregation organized in 1869. Designed by Emerson and Fehmer, Boston architects, and constructed by Alfred Howe, congregant and builder, it was the first Episcopal Church in North Carolina consecrated by Bishop Atkinson for African Americans.
Location of Preservation Resource Network Trades Fair
Saturday April 9th
Curtis-Foster House
110 N. 6th Street
Engineer George Curtis and his wife Melvina had this Italianate style house constructed just after the end of the Civil War (c. 1866). It was purchased in 1880 by Flavel Wright Foster, a Union Army veteran, county commissioner and city alderman who owned a planning mill where he made window sash and blinds.
Tim O'Callaghan
Louis T. Moore House
121 S. 5th Avenue
Built in 1910, this Shingle style house was the home of Louis T. and Florence Kidder Moore. While secretary of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce in the 1920s and 1930s he was the city's biggest promoter. A local historian, he was Chairman of the New Hanover County Historical Commission and author of Stories Old & New of the of the Cape Fear Region.
Roxann Lansdowne
Weeden House
119 Church Street
Architect, Charles McMillen, designed this Queen Anne style house in 1899 for Lindsay and Nellie Weedon. He owned a nearby factory that manufactured shuttle blocks for the textile industry. The house was purchased in 1903 by Edith and James Hopkins, a butcher at the City Market House.
Peter Kamarainen and Carol Chappell
Major Sponsor support from:
Ed Zirkle Photography
Dairy Queen of Wilmington
WHQR 91.3FM Public Radio
WWAY-TV 3
D.P. Thomas Construction
Debby Gomulka Designs
Farmer's Supply Company
Harris Teeter
The Farlow Group
With Further Sponsor support provided by:
Andrews Mortuary
Carpet Smart
Luxe Home Interiors
Morgan Keenan
Occasions
Old School Construction
Printworks by Elle
Rogers Building Corporation
Sandra Miles Dentistry
The Fisherman's Wife
The Ivy Cottage
The Transplanted Garden
Tomaso's Painting and Restoration
Wells Fargo Advisors
Friends of the Tour:
Carpet Smart, The Sterling House, Woodbury & Co.
