{"nrhp_refnum":"05000320","name":"Lawrence, Dr. Elmo N., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2121 Lake Wheeler Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.752778430000035,"lon":-78.66767803599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-04-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half story Craftsman bungalow built around 1922 on a 2.6-acre tract on Lake Wheeler Road in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, with a contributing garage. Built for dentist and orthodontist Dr. Elmo N. Lawrence.","why_significant":"The house is locally significant under Criterion C in Architecture as an intact, rare surviving Craftsman bungalow of hollow-core, tooled-face concrete block covered in stucco at construction. Block dwellings in the Craftsman style are rare in Raleigh, where only one other example from the period was identified. Its open plan follows Gustav Stickley's Greek cross plan promoted in Craftsman magazine.","narrative":"Set on a landscaped 2.6-acre tract off Lake Wheeler Road in Raleigh, this one-and-a-half story bungalow was built around 1922 for Dr. Elmo N. Lawrence, a long-time dentist and orthodontist. Its walls are 12½-by-5-inch tooled-face hollow concrete blocks covered with cement stucco from the start, under a side-gabled asphalt roof with shed dormers and triangular knee braces. A concrete block garage, later extended with a stone caretaker's apartment in the early 1940s, stands nearby. Inside, the plan centers on a parlor with a projecting fireplace, with the stair at the core of the house in the manner of Gustav Stickley's Greek cross plan. Plaster walls, original doors, windows and hardware survive. Later changes include a sunroom around 1960, a kitchen expansion, a 1990s chimney and a 2002 utility room. The house is significant as a rare Raleigh example of a handmade concrete block Craftsman house, likely made from blocks cast on site. Only one other comparable pre-1930 house survives in the city.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1922","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling with a secondary structure; the interior and exterior remain largely intact despite additions from around 1960, the 1990s and 2002.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.334007-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/21/7185/47718521/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/05000320.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718521","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Elmo_N._Lawrence_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24041077"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/lawrence-dr-elmo-n-house-05000320/"}