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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.”