Carolina Heights Historic District

Carolina Heights Historic District covers roughly twenty-six blocks and eighty acres east of downtown Wilmington. It combines two neighborhoods developed at about the same time: Carolina Heights, begun in 1908 under the leadership of Mary Bridgers as a suburb for prominent residents and a future Christian Science church, and Winoca Terrace, laid out in 1911 by Thomas H. Wright of J. G. Wright and Sons. Trolley lines linked both to downtown and Wrightsville Beach. The streets follow a grid, with wide sidewalks, brick walls, wrought-iron fences and mature azaleas, camellias and shade trees. Houses from the first three decades of the twentieth century include Neoclassical Revival, Georgian and Colonial Revival, English cottages, bungalows and Prairie-style designs by architect Burett Stephens. Service alleys and early garages record the arrival of the automobile. Institutional buildings include New Hanover County High School, Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, St. Paul's Episcopal Church and First Church of Christ, Scientist. Most buildings remain remarkably intact.