Making History
HWF in the NewsFebruary 2021
Ten Tours Guest Guide Islah Speller, Profiled in Star News
Burgwin-Wright House & Gardens Receives First Sapphire Plaque
Update: Wilmington’s Confederate Monuments
Islah Speller, leading a walking tour / Source: Star News
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 12, 2020 Port City Daily: Momentum gathering for removal, preservation of Confederate monuments in downtown Wilmington
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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 9, 2020 Star News: Historic Wilmington Foundation supports removal of Confederate monuments
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.