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Bellamy Mansion Museum receives grant to help with Hurricane Florence repairs The Bellamy Mansion Museum has been awarded an Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Funds Grant (ESHPF) of $219,735 to repair damage sustained during Hurricane Florence. By WECT Staff | February 8, 2021 at 1:31 PM EST - Updated February 8 at 1:31 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Bellamy Mansion Museum has been awarded an Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Funds Grant (ESHPF) of $219,735 to repair damage sustained during Hurricane Florence.
“The Bellamy Mansion has made it through a civil war, arson and over 50 named storms. Funding like this will enable us to complete the necessary repairs to help it survive whatever challenges lay ahead,” said Gareth Evans, Bellamy Mansion Museum Executive Director. “We are thrilled to receive the ESHPF grant to maintain Bellamy’s legacy for generations to come.”
Bellamy Mansion Museum received more than $219,000 from the Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Funds to help with restoration from the aftereffects of 2018’s Hurricane Florence. (Port City Daily/File)
WILMINGTON It’s been a hard-hitting two years in Wilmington for local tourist attractions and museums, such as the Bellamy Mansion. Before the pandemic shuttered most spaces in 2020, Hurricane Florence hit in 2018. For Bellamy, it equated vast damage and loss in revenue from closing for one week. With the help of the Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Funds Grant, the mansion will receive $219,735.
“We had damage in excess of $30,000 and lost revenue of another $25,000,” Bellamy’s executive director Gareth Evans said. “It didn’t rise to our deductible, so essentially we weren’t covered.”
WILMINGTON – Take a stroll through downtown Wilmington and you re bound to encounter history in every block.
Even if you aren t looking for it, the stories of the Cape Fear region stand out from the modernity of the ever-changing downtown district. Nowhere is this more true than on the front porch and lower level entrance of the Burgwin-Wright House, where striking sapphire-colored plaques are now fixed beside the doorways.
The hard-to-miss blue plaques are the first debuted in a new initiative by the Historic Wilmington Foundation to better signify a historic place s age and role in the city s larger history.
The new plaque s color signifies the structure it is found on is more than 200 years old. In fact, the Burgwin-Wright House itself is 250 years old (completed in 1770) and the stone structure it was built on – remnants of the city s first jail – is more than 270 years old.
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