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Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens

Coordinates: 35°47′15.16″N 78°39′43.7″W / 35.7875444°N 78.662139°W / 35.7875444; -78.662139
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Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens
Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens is located in North Carolina
Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens
Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens is located in the United States
Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens
Location213 Oberlin Rd., Raleigh, North Carolina
Coordinates35°47′15.16″N 78°39′43.7″W / 35.7875444°N 78.662139°W / 35.7875444; -78.662139
Area1.2 acres (0.49 ha)
Built1937 (1937)
ArchitectHenderson, Isabelle Bowen
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.89001049[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 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. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  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.