Making History
HWF in the NewsJuly 2022
Wrightsville Avenue
Thalian Hall & The Legacy of Tony Rivenbark
June 2022
Reaves Chapel Restoration
April 2022
Azalea Festival Home Tour
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April 1, 2022 StarNews: As Wilmington’s Azalea Festival returns to spring, what’s back, what’s new and what’s out?
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April 4, 2022 Port City Daily: 9 ways to enjoy the 75th N.C. Azalea Festival
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April 7, 2022 WWAY: Azalea Festival Home Tour to feature an eclectic mix of historic homes and churches
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April 9, 2022 WWAY: Ribbon cutting held to kick off Wilmington Azalea Festival Historic Foundation Home Tour
Point Peter Proposed Development
March 2022
Azalea Festival Home Tour
Point Peter Proposed Development
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March 24, 2022 Greater Wilmington Business Journal: The View Across the Way
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March 27, 2022 Port City Daily: Explainer: What to Know About Battleship Point
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March 31, 2022 WWAY: Environmental concerns lead conversation for New Hanover commissioners at Point Peter work session
New Hanover High School Unveils Historic Plaque
Nominations are Open for 2022 Preservation Awards
February 2022
Saving Wilmington’s Black Historic Sites
Proposed Traffic Lights on South 3rd Street
Point Peter Proposed Development
January 2022
Coalition Opposes Text Amendment to Develop Point Peter
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January 5, 2022 StarNews: Wilmington groups gather to oppose west bank development ahead of county decision
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January 5, 2022 Greater Wilmington Business Journal: Coalition Comes Out Against Large Development Across From Downtown
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January 5, 2022 WWAY: Wilmington groups gather to oppose west bank development ahead of county decision
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January 7, 2022 Coastal Review: Groups: New Hanover development request ‘sheer folly’
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January 10, 2022 WWAY: Groups: Commissioners table discussion on development of west bank of Cape Fear River
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January 10, 2022 StarNews: New Hanover leaders delay action on west bank development request
December 2021
First Steps Underway to Restore Giblem Lodge
Work Begins to Restore Reaves Chapel
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December 15, 2021 Coastal Review: Work begins to restore historic African American church
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December 17, 2021 WWAY: Restoration underway on historic African-American church in Navassa
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December 25, 2021 Port City Daily: Previously at risk, one of the last standing pieces of Brunswick County’s Gullah Geechee culture will be saved
November 2021
Cape Fear Unearthed podcast: Legacy Architectural Salvage
City of Wilmington’s Resolution to Pursue Stay-of-Demolition at State Level
October 2021
Legacy Architectural Salvage’s Deconstruction Missions
Elizabeth Wright, Founding Member of HWF, Passes Away
September 2021
three10 Restaurant Set to Open Soon
Project Grace Updates
August 2021
Shandy Hall Threatened by Demolition
Historic Tax Credit Growth & Opportunity Act (HTC-GO)
Run Through History 5k & 1-Mile Walk
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August 14, 2021 StarNews: Run Through History: Preserving, protecting Wilmington’s irreplaceable
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August 16, 2021 WECT: Run Through History: Run, but don’t go too fast, during Historic Wilmington Foundation’s weekend run
Project Grace
July 2021
Maides Cemetery Clean-Up
May 2021
Preservation Month
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May 12, 2021 StarNews: Historic Wilmington Foundation to help restore iconic Black history landmark
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May 12, 2021 WECT: Historic Wilmington Foundation announces restoration of Giblem Lodge
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May 12, 2021 WWAY: Historic foundation works to preserve Giblem Lodge in Wilmington
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May 12, 2021 Port City Daily: There’s ‘still time’ to save the Borst building, historic preservationists say, as developers and staff shape county’s Project Grace
April 2021
Advocacy for Wilmington’s Historic Districts
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April 11, 2021 Port City Daily: ‘Not a hollow threat’: HWF aims to protect Northside’s historic value from development
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April 18, 2021 Port City Daily: Should the city protect Carolina Place as a local historic district?
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April 25, 2021 Port City Daily: Masonboro Sound Historic District: An ‘oasis of extraordinary beauty’ threatened by clear-cutting development
Promenade Performances
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April 1, 2021 StarNews: Wilmington’s 74th annual Azalea Festival will be like none that have come before it
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April 10, 2021 WWAY: Historic Wilmington Foundation hosts Promenade Performances highlighting historic buildings
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April 11, 2021 Port City Daily: Azalea Festival 2021: Locals get creative modifying events to celebrate the arrival of spring
March 2021
2021 Preservation Awards Nominations Open
HWF Advocates for Historic Preservation Easement on Borst Building
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March 13, 2021 StarNews: OPINION: Project Grace needs to preserve Wilmington’s historic buildings, not demolish
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March 14, 2021 Port City Daily: Historical activists make their play, county defends process with Project Grace vote at hand
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March 15, 2021 WWAY: Project Grace gets OK’d by county commissioners
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March 15, 2021 Port City Daily: Project Grace gets thumbs up; developer to overhaul block of historic district
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March 15, 2021 WHQR: New Hanover County commissioners tweak, approve Project Grace deal, stick with lease-to-own
February 2021
Ten Tours Guest Guide Islah Speller, Profiled in Star News
Burgwin-Wright House & Gardens Receives First Sapphire Plaque
Update: Wilmington’s Confederate Monuments
January 2021
HWF Announces Incoming Executive Director, Travis Gilbert
December 2020
One Love Tennis Historic Home’s HWF Plaque
Legacy Architectural Salvage’s 2020 Holiday Gift Market
HWF’s 55th Anniversary
November 2020
Historic Wilmington Foundation Executive Director Beth Rutledge Resigns Post
October 2020
HWF & Cape Fear Community College Partner to Preserve Built History
September 2020
Inaugural Run Through History 5k & 1-Mile Walk
July 2020
NCDOT Presents Plans for the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge Replacement, Community Weighs In
June 2020
Historic Wilmington Foundation Supports Relocation of Confederate Monuments
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June 9, 2020 Star News: Historic Wilmington Foundation supports removal of Confederate monuments
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June 10, 2020 WECT: Push to remove confederate statues from Wilmington gets support of Historic Wilmington Foundation
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June 12, 2020 Port City Daily: Momentum gathering for removal, preservation of Confederate monuments in downtown Wilmington
May 2020
Historic Wilmington Foundation Celebrates 54 Years of Preserving Buildings in the Cape Fear
January 2020
The Future of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge
December 2019
HWF Debuts New Plaques for Oldest Structures
September 2019
HWF Presents 2nd Annual Preservation Weekend
August 2019
HWF’s Executive Director Featured in Salt Magazine
July 2019
2019-2020 List of Most Threatened Places
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July 24, 2019 Star News: Historic foundation announces Cape Fear’s most threatened places
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July 24, 2019 Star News PHOTOS: Wilmington area’s most threatened places
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July 24, 2019 WWAY: Historic Wilmington Foundation Announces List of ‘Most Threatened Places’
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July 24, 2019 WECT: Wilmington Nonprofit Releases List of Most Threatened Places
HWF Partners with the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust to Restore Reaves Chapel
Listed as one of HWF’s 2019-2020 Most Threatened Places, Reaves Chapel is now being stabilized.
June 2019
2019 Carr Memorial Plaque Dedication
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May 24, 2019 WWAY: Plaque Commemorates Historic Role of Williston High School
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May 24, 2019 Star News: Williston recognized for contributions to Wilmington’s History
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May 24, 2019 Star News: PHOTOS: Williston recognized for historical impact
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May 21, 2019 New Hanover County Schools: Historic Wilmington Foundation to Present Building Plaque for the former Williston Industrial High School
HWF Advocates for Preservation During Project Grace Planning
A proposed project in New Hanover County includes the demolition of two historic buildings. HWF advocates to preserve the buildings and suggests including them in an adaptive reuse project.
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June 14, 2019 Wilmington Biz Magazine: OpEd A Future That Respects the Past
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May 12, 2019 WHQR Public Media: What Next For Project Grace?
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April 20, 2019 Star News: Letter to the Editor
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April 16, 2019 Wilmington Business Journal: County Commissioners to Pursue 2 Tracks on Project Grace
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April 15, 2019 WHQR Public Media: Project Grace Surprise at New Hanover County Commission Meeting
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March 27, 2019 WHQR Public Media: Coastline: Project Grace
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February 26, 2019 encore Pub: Project Grace Causes a Disparagement of Opinion
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February 19, 2019 WHQR Public Media: Project Grace Coming Into Focus
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September 26, 2018 encore Pub: GHOSTS OF DEVELOPMENT: Project Grace stirs up concern over downtown’s public library and development plans
December 2018
Moving 310 Bladen to North 4th & Swann Street
The house was donated to Historic Wilmington Foundation with the condition that we relocate it. Jennifer Concklin and Matt Walker, the building’s new owners, are hard at work transforming the turn-of-the-century house into a restaurant. Truly a community effort, this move is preservation at work! A property slated for demolition now occupies a once vacant lot, contributing to the reactivation of a blossoming neighborhood corridor. Win-win!
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December 17, 2018 Star News: Historic Wilmington home to be moved, become restaurant
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December 17, 2018 WWAY: Historic Wilmington home to be move, become restaurant
- December 21, 2018 Port City Daily: In Pictures: Downtown historic home, and future southern seafood restaurant, wheeled up North Fourth Street
November 2018
Florence Fix-It
After the devastation of Hurricane Florence, Historic Wilmington Foundation launched Florence Fix-It, awarding 20 grants (equaling nearly $100,000) to owners of old houses to help them pay for storm-related repairs or insurance deductibles.