English: Postcard of 'Blythewood,' Lexington Ave., Burlington, North Carolina. The home was built circa 1896 to the designs of architect George Franklin Barber, and was owned by Lawrence Shackleford Holt Sr., of the pioneering textile family. [1]File:Lawrence Shackleford Holt Burlington North Carolina.jpeg The home stood on a large block of land, located on Lexington Ave. and bordering on Lexington, Davis Street, and Maple Avenues, in the proximate location of today's Burlington Municipal Building. Other large homes belonging to Holt family members stood nearby. Lawrence S. Holt's home was, according to architectural historians, 'among Barber's most dramatically composed and ornamented houses in the Piedmont.' The home was, like many early mansions built in the area, later demolished. This postcard was published ca. 1909 by the American News Company, New York, Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin, and was apparently printed in Germany. 88 mm x 138 mm. (From the Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards, North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [2] The Library lists the copyright as 'public domain.')