New Hanover High School - 1300 block Market Street.

The massive yellow brick building was built 1920-1922 by W. J. Wilkins & Co.,Architects. The building formally replaced Wilmington High School, which was located in the Tileston School building at Fifth and Ann streets. In 1922, with an enrollment of 840 students, it was the largest high school in North Carolina and was New Hanover County's only white high school until the mid-1960s. At a distance in the center of the photo is Trinity Methodist Church, a Neoclassical Revival building, where services were first held on 4 December 1921. In the plaza at the intersection of Thirteenth and Market streets, is the World War I Memorial. A stone slab, with a bronze plaque on the front, J. Maxwell Miller was the sculptor and J. Arthur Limerick Co., the caster. It was unveiled on 20 May 1922 and funded by local school students and the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce. In recent years, the memorial, which lists the names of all New Hanover County's World War I dead, has been moved to the High School campus, in front of Brogden Hall. (Also see #629).

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