Making History

December 2021

First Steps Underway to Restore Giblem Lodge

• December 16, 2021 Port City Daily: First steps underway to restore Giblem Lodge, Wilmington’s time capsule of Black resilience

Work Begins to Restore Reaves Chapel

• December 15, 2021 Coastal Review: Work begins to restore historic African American church

• December 17, 2021 WWAY: Restoration underway on historic African-American church in Navassa

• December 25, 2021 Port City Daily: Previously at risk, one of the last standing pieces of Brunswick County’s Gullah Geechee culture will be saved

November 2021

Cape Fear Unearthed podcast: Legacy Architectural Salvage

• November 26, 2021 Star News: Cape Fear Unearthed podcast looks at contributions of Legacy Architectural Salvage

City of Wilmington’s Resolution to Pursue Stay-of-Demolition at State Level

• November 1, 2021 WECT: A proposed resolution could help save historic buildings in Wilmington

• November 4, 2021 WWAY: Wilmington leaders approve stay-of-demolition resolution

October 2021

Legacy Architectural Salvage’s Deconstruction Missions

• October 1, 2021 Port City Daily: Saving the pieces: Legacy serves as last-ditch historic preservation option, gives historic finds new life

Elizabeth Wright, Founding Member of HWF, Passes Away

• October 4, 2021 WECT: Historic Wilmington Foundation founder dies

• October 5, 2021 WWAY: Founding member of Historic Wilmington Foundation dies

September 2021

three10 Restaurant Set to Open Soon

• September 7, 2021 Port City Daily: Saved from demolition: Historic home becomes restaurant Three 10, to open in Brooklyn Arts District next month

Project Grace Updates

• September 3, 2021 Greater Wilmington Business Journal: Downtown Block’s Transformation Proceeds

• September 27, 2021 Greater Wilmington Business Journal: Sound Off: History Under Siege (Op-Ed)

August 2021

Shandy Hall Threatened by Demolition

• August 28, 2021 Port City Daily: 19th century sound home to be demolished and replaced, neighbors decry plan as ‘sacrilegious’

Historic Tax Credit Growth & Opportunity Act (HTC-GO)

• August 26, 2021 WHQR: Preservationists hope bi-partisan bill in Congress can save more Wilmington-area historic buildings

Run Through History 5k & 1-Mile Walk

• August 14, 2021 StarNews: Run Through History: Preserving, protecting Wilmington’s irreplaceable

• August 16, 2021 WECT: Run Through History: Run, but don’t go too fast, during Historic Wilmington Foundation’s weekend run

Project Grace

• August 4, 2021 WWAY: Local residents express concerns surrounding Project Grace

• August 5, 2021 Port City Daily: Project Grace: Docs reveal analysis of new library and museum in redevelopment plan

• August 6, 2021 StarNews: New Hanover group pushes back against Project Grace to ‘save our main library’ 

July 2021

Maides Cemetery Clean-Up

• July 17, 2021 WWAY: Volunteers attempting to bring a historic cemetery back to life

June 2021

Maides Cemetery Clean-Up

• June 1, 2021 StarNews: Cape Fear Unearthed podcast looks at contributions of Historic Wilmington Foundation

• June 19, 2021 WECT: Community gathers for Juneteenth Maides Cemetery cleanup

May 2021

Preservation Month

• May 12, 2021 StarNews: Historic Wilmington Foundation to help restore iconic Black history landmark

• May 12, 2021 WECT: Historic Wilmington Foundation announces restoration of Giblem Lodge

• May 12, 2021 WWAY: Historic foundation works to preserve Giblem Lodge in Wilmington

• May 12, 2021 Port City Daily: There’s ‘still time’ to save the Borst building, historic preservationists say, as developers and staff shape county’s Project Grace

April 2021

Advocacy for Wilmington’s Historic Districts

• April 11, 2021 Port City Daily: ‘Not a hollow threat’: HWF aims to protect Northside’s historic value from development

• April 18, 2021 Port City Daily: Should the city protect Carolina Place as a local historic district?

• April 25, 2021 Port City Daily: Masonboro Sound Historic District: An ‘oasis of extraordinary beauty’ threatened by clear-cutting development

Promenade Performances

• April 1, 2021 StarNews: Wilmington’s 74th annual Azalea Festival will be like none that have come before it

• April 10, 2021 WWAY: Historic Wilmington Foundation hosts Promenade Performances highlighting historic buildings

• April 11, 2021 Port City Daily: Azalea Festival 2021: Locals get creative modifying events to celebrate the arrival of spring

March 2021

2021 Preservation Awards Nominations Open

• March 3, 2021 StarNews: Historic Wilmington Foundation opens 2021 Preservation Awards nominations

HWF Advocates for Historic Preservation Easement on Borst Building

• March 13, 2021 StarNews: OPINION: Project Grace needs to preserve Wilmington’s historic buildings, not demolish

• March 14, 2021 Port City Daily: Historical activists make their play, county defends process with Project Grace vote at hand

• March 15, 2021 WWAY: Project Grace gets OK’d by county commissioners

• March 15, 2021 Port City Daily: Project Grace gets thumbs up; developer to overhaul block of historic district

• March 15, 2021 WHQR: New Hanover County commissioners tweak, approve Project Grace deal, stick with lease-to-own

February 2021

Ten Tours Guest Guide Islah Speller, Profiled in Star News

• February 8, 2021 StarNews: Wilmington African-American history walking tour creator: ‘This is our story’

Burgwin-Wright House & Gardens Receives First Sapphire Plaque

• February 6, 2021 Star News: History preserved: How Wilmington’s oldest buildings are being honored

Update: Wilmington’s Confederate Monuments

• February 16, 2021 WECT: Months later Wilmington’s Confederate monuments remain in limbo

January 2021

HWF Announces Incoming Executive Director, Travis Gilbert

• January 15, 2021 Wilmington Business Journal: Historic Wilmington Foundation Names Next Executive Director

• January 27, 2021 Star News: Historic Wilmington Foundation Hires its Youngest Director Ever