Airlie
Contributors:
Charles McMillen, architect;
C.T. Shepard, contractor
Dates:
1901
Location:
Wrightsville Sound, New Hanover County
Street Address:
300 Airlie Rd., Wrightsville Sound, NC
Status:
No longer standing
Type:
Residential
Images Published In:
Susan Taylor Block, Cape Fear Lost (1999).
Note:
Pembroke Jones awarded a contract to C. T. Shepard to construct a buidling for use as a tennis court, ballroom and hall for private theatricals. Plans were by Charles McMillen. It was to be 50 x 100 feet with arched ceiling 30 feet high in the center. “Polished hardwood floor will make an excellent place for dancing. Seats will run all the way around the walls for the benefit of spectators of the tennis, dancing and private theatricals” (Wilmington Dispatch, January 9, 1901; Messenger, January 10, 1901).