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Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens

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NRHP Reference #
  
89001049

Year built
  
1937

Area
  
4,900 m²

Added to NRHP
  
7 August 1989

Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens

Location
  
213 Oberlin Rd., Raleigh, North Carolina

Architect
  
Henderson, Isabelle Bowen

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival, Late Victorian

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.

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

References

Isabelle Bowen Henderson House and Gardens Wikipedia