General Features[>
- Sleeps 6
- 3 Bedrooms
- 2 Bathrooms
- Private vacation home
- Approximately 3836 square feet
Feel downtown Wilmington in this handsomely restored high-end home complete with modern décor and social spaces intentionally upfit for appreciating yourself while impressing your guests. This darling getaway has remained one of Wilmington's most celebrated homes since 1844 and is the ideal place to host your downtown stay, hold corporate meetings and events, celebrate a significant birthday, host a graduation dinner, or receive guests as 'mother-of-the-bride' or 'father-of-the-groom' while providing exceptionally more hospitality than a hotel suite.
The location is simply unbeatable. This architectural gem is within walking distance of the Cape Fear riverfront and within a block of trendy event venues, including The Atrium, Bakery 105, and St. Thomas Preservation Hall, award-winning eateries, music venues, water tours, impressive horse-drawn carriage tours, Historic Foundation, Historical Society, and Community Arts Center.
As you enter this marvelous home away from home, you will be greeted by rift-sawn heart pine floors, an impressionable staircase, and 12-foot ceilings displaying art. Discover a cavernous great room that can be separated into two separate living areas both furnished with beautiful couches and chairs, carved granite fireplaces (decorative only nowadays), and many entertaining books. This space is ideal for entertaining and hosting meetings, events, or holidays with your appreciated ones. Due to the luxury and refinement of this home, no home events are allowed. If your stay involves hosting a special event, prior approval from management and the homeowners is required. Due to the luxury and refinement of this home, no home events are allowed. If your stay involves hosting a special event, prior approval from management and the homeowners is required. Spend countless hours chatting, planning your next adventures, and creating everlasting memories. The kitchen has been restored with luxury cooking appliances, which are hidden behind panels. The refrigerator is in the scullery kitchen and beside it is one of the two Bosch dishwashers. The modest oven is a Thermador speed oven. There is a Fulgor Milano undercabinet drawer that can be an additional frig, freezer, or wine cooler. There are two microwaves (one countertop and one drawer style). There is a Fulgor Milano gas range top, two kitchen sinks, and a coffee bar with an Espresso machine, coffee makers, toaster, and blender. The scullery kitchen can be closed off from the breakfast kitchen, if needed, and includes a rear entrance that can be accessed separately for catering. The home also features a covered front porch with stately columns fronting South 2nd Street, where you can dine alfresco, a back porch with breakfast seating, a side yard with hedges and a fountain, and a backyard for lawn games. A modern half-bath powder room is located on the first floor.
Upstairs, you will discover three charming bedrooms, a laundry room with a washer/dryer, two modern bathrooms, multiple conversation areas, and a rear balcony with a bench swing. The primary suite enjoys an en suite bathroom with a restored glass-enclosed shower and a roomy lounge area with a bespoke Cherrywood Japanese soaking tub. This space opens up to the laundry room. The two additional sizable bedrooms share one full-size bathroom with a shower in a deep tub. A cozy conversation “Tea” room adjoins the main hall upstairs - the ideal place to have memorable one-on-one conversations, catch up on your e-mail, and get lost in a game or book.
Things to Know
Check-in time: 4:00 p.m.
Check-out time: 10:00 a.m.
All guests shall abide by the good neighbor policy and shall not engage in illegal activity. Quiet hours are from 10:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m.
No smoking is allowed anywhere on the premises. No flames of any sort. All of the fireplaces are decorative only, fires (including candles) are not allowed.
Due to the luxury and refinement of this home, no home events are allowed. If your stay involves hosting a special event, prior approval from management and the homeowner is required.
About the Area
Located in Wilmington, this vacation home is in the city center. Hannah Block Historic USO Arts Center and Children's Museum of Wilmington are local attractions and those in the mood for shopping can visit The Cotton Exchange and Mayfaire Town Center. Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts and Cape Fear Museum are also worth visiting. Discover the area's water adventures with motor boating nearby, or enjoy the great outdoors with ecotours.
Special Instructions
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Pet Policy
Pets not allowed
Nearby Restaurants
- The Little Dipper - 0.1 miles
- Black Sea Grill - 0.1 miles
- Yosake - 0.1 miles
- The Fortunate Glass - 0.1 miles
- 24 South Coffee House - 0.1 miles
- George on the Riverwalk - 0.1 miles
- Fork N Cork - 0.1 miles
- The Dixie Grill - 0.1 miles
Nearby Activities
- The Cotton Exchange - 0.5 miles
- Cape Fear Museum - 0.5 miles
- Wilmington Railroad Museum - 0.6 miles
- Greenfield Lake Park - 1.3 miles
- Cameron Art Museum - 3.8 miles
- Halyburton Park - 4.6 miles
- Wilmington Riverwalk - 0.2 miles
- Long Leaf Park - 4.0 miles
Nearby Shopping
- Old Wilmington City Market - 0.1 miles
- Cameron Art Museum - 3.8 miles
- The Black Cat Shoppe - 0.2 miles
- Ivy Cottage (The) - 2.4 miles
- Antiques of Old Wilmington - 0.1 miles
- The Cigar Exchange - 0.2 miles
- Bottega Art & Wine - 0.3 miles
- Cape Fear Wine & Beer - 0.3 miles
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