1920s cottage expands Wrightsville Beach Museum of History

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) — A piece of the past literally moved its way through Wrightsville Beach Thursday.

It is soon to be an addition to the Wrightsville Beach Museum of History.

The museum is expanding with the addition of a 1924 cottage that moved from North Lumina Avenue to a lot right by the museum in the historic square.

The cottage was donated around a year ago and is being preserved as a local piece of history.

The Museum’s Executive Director Madeline Flagler said this is not only exciting for her, but also for the town.

“The new cottage will provide more exhibit space and demonstration area, so upstairs will have a big room that will be called the Lumina room that will have a the big Lumina exhibit in there and our model of the beach the way it looked in 1910,” Flagler said.

There will also be another room showing the Waterman Hall of Fame, an exhibit showing water sports. The cottage will officially open in July.