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Masonboro Sound Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
92001334

Added to NRHP
  
22 October 1992

Area
  
114 ha

Masonboro Sound Historic District

Location
  
Bounded by Market St., Wallace Park, Gibson Ave., Wrightsville Ave. and S. Eighteenth St., Wilmington, North Carolina

Built
  
c. 1835 (1835), c. 1870-1942

Architectural style
  
Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance

Masonboro Sound Historic District is a national historic district located near Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 22 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 8 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object near Wilmington. The district developed during the 19th and early-20th century and includes notable examples of Italian Renaissance and Colonial Revival style architecture. There are 10 contributing dwellings and 13 contributing outbuildings. Notable dwellings include the Carr-Ormand House (1932), Willard-Sprunt-Woolvin House (1880), Cazaux-Williams-Crow House (Halcyon Hall, 1877, 1880s, 1937), Parsley-Love House (Hickory Hill, 1885, 1912), Live Oaks (1913), Taylor-Bissinger House (1937), the "Doll House" (1924), and Hill-Anderson Cottage (c. 1835).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

References

Masonboro Sound Historic District Wikipedia