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WILMINGTON MISC

1952 - The David Wilson House, Wilmington NC.  Designed by Leslie N. Boney.  Featured in Southern Architect September 1957.  Built by Miller Building Company.  3500 sf.

1956 - The Fredrick L. and Geraldine (Jeri) Block House, 1119 Forest Hills Drive, Wilmington NC.  The 3420 square foot house includes four bedrooms, three full baths, original tiling, and two half baths.  Designed and built by Bunny Hines of the Hines Construction Company.  A textile engineer by training, James Burnett (Bunny) Hines (1915-2009) was a master craftsman who loved modernism and built many of them in the area.  Sold in 1979 to Charles and Georgia Hughes.  Sold to current owners Donald and Jeanne Gore in 1984.

Hines' younger years were spent in Naples FL and Winston-Salem NC, where he graduated from Reynolds High School. Bunny was very active in athletics and was able to attend NC State on a football scholarship. He graduated in 1939 with a degree in Textile Engineering. Bunny also attended the University of North Carolina to achieve a Masters degree in Physical Education.  Bunny joined his father's business, Hines Construction Company, Inc., where he built many homes and commercial buildings in New Hanover and Brunswick counties with a large concentration of his work being completed in Wrightsville Beach, NC.  His brother Donald Hines was an architect from Winston-Salem who designed other modernist houses there and in Wilmington. 

1957 - The Joseph Freedland House, 328 East Renovah Circle, Wilmington. Designed by Altobellis & Associates.  Sold in 1981 to Bert Hoffman. Sold to 1990 to Kyle H. McIntyre.  Sold in 2005 to John E. Sexton. 3744 sf.  Perhaps the first house in the area to be built with steel beams throughout the roof structure.  On the market for two years.  Sold in 2011 to Richard S. Polen. 

Around 1962 - The George Koseruba House, on the Cape Fear River at Wilmington NC.  Designed by Ballard McKim and Sawyer.  Built by J. Fred Murray.  Photo by Joseph Nesbitt.

1991 - The Charles C. McKinney Residence, 277 Beach Road North, Figure Eight Island, Wilmington NC.  Designed by Hugh Newell Jacobson.  The house is a composition of linked and separate pavilions.

 



2005 - The Don Whitten Residence, aka Swamp Shack, 4122 Appleton Way, Wilmington.  Designed by architect Don Whitten. 2300sf.