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Historic preservation can play an important role in achieving the objectives of a local housing policy which stresses neighborhood revitalization. This article suggests the growing importance of preservation as a housing strategy and illustrates how preservation in one North Carolina city, Wilmington, has helped to stimulate public investment and revitalization in the central city.
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Located at the corner of Second and Dock Streets, high on a terraced hill that overlooks downtown Wilmington and the Cape Fear River, the de Rosset House was constructed in the 1840s for Dr. Armand de Rosset, III and his family. By 1975, the house, damaged by fire, was deteriorating badly. It was then purchased by the Historic Wilmington Foundation, which used part of the building for offices until 1996. The foundation offered it for sale with a protective covenant. Lea describes the restoration of the house and how it was put to practical use as a city club, hotel, and restaurant dining.
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Bob Jenkins, a native of Sneads Ferry, spent much of his early life in Wilmington, before going off to study interior design. When he returned to Wilmington in the late 1960s, he found the downtown area had become seedy and catered to a coarse trade. Families had moved out, and many of the old historic homes were decaying or being torn down. Jenkins became a pioneer when he opened a design shop near the riverfront and purchased one of the historic homes nearby. Fortunately, he found other like-minded individuals who cared about revitalizing downtown and preserving historic buildings. Today more than three hundred blocks of downtown Wilmington are on the National Register of Historic Places, and the town is mentioned in the same breath as Savannah and Charleston. Jenkins retired in 1989, and is the owner and sole employee of Wilmington's Adventure and Walking Tours.
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11971
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Wilmington's traditions, history, and heritage is preserved in its historic district. Covering an area of thirty-five blocks, it is the largest in the country.
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St. John's Lodge, also known as St. John's Tavern, was the first Masonic building erected in the state of North Carolina. Utilized for decades of meetings as well as celebrations, St. John's Tavern was eventually neglected, vandalized, and left derelict. Donated by Henry Bacon MaKoy and James Hasell McKoy, to the newly established, St. John's Art Gallery, Inc., of Wilmington, St. John's Tavern will become St. John's Art Gallery, and will serve as a school for those interested in allied arts.
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The Cornwallis House at the corner of Third and Market Streets in Wilmington has been restored by the Colonial Dames and opened to the public.
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The interior restoration of the Bellamy Mansion in Wilmington is now underway. Although the house has been vacant for more than four decades, it is one of North Carolina's best known architectural masterpieces and its restoration and reopening is twenty years in the making.
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18912
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When John D. Bellamy committed to the construction of a new family home in Wilmington, he hired architect James F. Post to supervise. Post in turn hired Rufus W. Bunnell to assist him. Bunnell's journals provide the clearest picture of how the mansion was constructed, offering a hand up for recent conservation efforts.
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18929
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The slave quarters of Wilmington's Bellamy Mansion represent one of the most important architectural and cultural assets in North Carolina. Although the precise date of construction is unknown, restoration of the two-story brick Italianate structure will begin soon to preserve a rare urban slave dwelling.
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