Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens

Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens
Location 213 Oberlin Rd., Raleigh, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°47′15.16″N 78°39′43.7″W / 35.7875444°N 78.662139°W / 35.7875444; -78.662139Coordinates: 35°47′15.16″N 78°39′43.7″W / 35.7875444°N 78.662139°W / 35.7875444; -78.662139
Area 1.2 acres (0.49 ha)
Built 1937 (1937)
Architect Henderson, Isabelle Bowen
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Late Victorian
NRHP Reference # 89001049[1]
Added to NRHP August 7, 1989

Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens is a historic home and garden and national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina. The main house is a modest 19th century turreted late Victorian period frame cottage, with a Colonial Revival style studio wing and kitchen and dining porch added in 1937. Also on the property is a contributing two car garage and apartment building (late 1930s, 1950), herb house (c. 1937), front garden (1937-1938), back garden (1937 onward), herb garden (c. 1937), and brick terrace (1937-1938). It was the home of noted local artist Isabelle Bowen Henderson and representative of the Williamsburg Revival design movement in Raleigh.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Russ Stephenson; Karin Kaiser; Eleanor Weinel (October 1988). "Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-06-01.


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