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Beaty Apartments
No full textThis divided back postcard features a photograph by W. Kendall Dorsey which captures the Beaty Apartments at Wrightsville Beach
Holiday Inn: The World's Innkeeper
No full textThis divided back postcard features a photograph which captures visitors staying at the Holiday Inn at Wrightsville Beach
Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
No full textThis divided back postcard features a photograph by Jack Loughlin which captures Johnnie Mercer's Fishing Pier at Wrightsville Beac
The Landis...On the Ocean Front. Wrightsville Beach...North Carolina
No full textThis divided back postcard features an illustration depicting the Landis Hotel at Wrightsville Beach
W-36 Ocean Inn, Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
No full textThis divided back post card features an illustration depicting the Ocean Inn at Wrightsville Beach
Proposal to NHC Medical Society
No full textTypewritten proposal written by Dr. Robert M. Fales and presented to the New Hanover County Medical Society - March 195
Boney Family Architects
No full textFamily photograph of the Boneys. From right to left: Leslie Norwood Boney, Sr., Leslie Boney, Jr., William Joseph Boney, Charles Hussey Boney, Paul Boney in front.
Leslie Norwood Boney (1880-1964) was a well-known and respected architect in North Carolina. He designed the Neo-Classic Revival Annex of the New Hanover County Courthouse, the Wilmington College Campus (later UNC Wilmington), St. Andrews-on-the-Sound, Cape Fear Clubhouse, and New Hanover Memorial Hospital, as well as over 1,000 other buildings. He was an early leader in the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society. He served on the board of trustees at North Carolina State University, where there is a scholarship in his name, and started a family architectural firm that is still in business today.
His son Leslie Boney, Jr. (1920-2003) was the recipient of many national architectural honors and awards. He was active in the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society, the Cape Fear Club, and director of the Bellamy Mansion. He won the Clarendon Cup Literary Award from the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society, and the Ruth Coltrane Cannon Cup in 2002,which is the highest award given in North Carolina for historic preservation.
William Joseph Boney (1922-1993) started practice with his father (Leslie Boney, Sr.) after graduating from NCSU in 1947, and designed many school and medical facilities throughout his career. He was President of the Cape Fear Rose Society, on the board of directors of many historical and civic organizations, and active in the North Carolina chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He was the father of Paul Boney.
Charles Hussey Boney (1924- ) served on many boards in Wilmington and at North Carolina State University. He is well known for building health care facilities. He has served on the historic district commission, and received the F. Carter Williams Gold Medal, which is the highest honor given by the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Paul Boney (1954- ) is the small boy in the photo, and one of several generations of Boneys to work at Boney Architects (now known as LSP3)
Proposal to NHC Medical Society
No full textSecond page of a handwritten proposal by Dr. Robert M. Fales, March 195
Cooperative Savings and Loan
No full textPhotograph of Christmas party of the Cooperative Savings and Loan on board the Fergus Ark restaurant.
Left to right: (sitting) Estel Fussell, Audrey Woodall, Polly Justice, Miriam Alford, Frederick Willetts, Sr., Catherine Freimuth (Tinder), Betty English, last two women on right unknown. (standing) First man on the left unknown, Tim Farrow, Frederich Willetts, Jr., Carl Babson, Ed Weaver, Mosely Fonvielle, Ray Johnson, Giddy Burkeheimer, Chick Mathews, J.C. Hall.
Originally Cooperative Building and Loan, the bank changed its name in 1948 to Cooperative Savings and Loan. It was run by the Willets family of Wilmington for many years. It into the 21st century, finally closing in June of 2009
Joyce Knowles Balthazer
No full textJoyce Balthazer at Wrightsville Beach, NC.
Joyce Knowles Balthazer (1939- ) was born in Duplin County, NC and raised in Wilmington, NC