{"nrhp_refnum":"06000866","name":"Lawrence, Elizabeth, House and Garden","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"348 Ridgewood Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.17998337100005,"lon":-80.84329275299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-09-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Literature"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story Colonial Revival house and its garden at 348 Ridgewood Avenue in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, built in 1948-1949 by Elizabeth Lawrence and her home until 1984.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is the surviving home and garden associated with Elizabeth Lawrence's career as a garden designer and garden writer, after her Raleigh house and garden were lost. The garden is described as the most intact example of her landscape work, and the house is noted for its modest design and the way the whole lot was treated as a single garden. Her books written and published from this home are presented as nationally important in literature and landscape architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1948-1949 on a seventy-by-225-foot lot in Charlotte's Poplar Gables subdivision, this one-and-one-half-story house was the home of garden writer and plantswoman Elizabeth Lawrence from completion until 1984. Its gray-stained cedar shingles, six-panel entrance door, and multi-pane sash windows give it a mid-century Colonial Revival character, and it was one of few one-story houses on its street. Lawrence treated the entire lot as a single garden, with a gravel entrance court in front and a unified planting extending to the back alley, an approach that was unusual in Charlotte. The garden was the setting for her second book, The Little Bulbs (1957), and for her Charlotte Observer columns from 1957 to 1971, which made the garden known to readers across the country. The property is regarded as the only surviving site connected with her working life after the Raleigh house and garden were lost, and it is significant for its links to her writing and landscape design.","period_of_significance":"1948-1984","architect_builder":"Lawrence, Elizabeth Lewis (garden designer)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"The house was enclosed and altered in 1986 and the cedar shingles were replaced about 1992-1995; the document does not state its current use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.729996-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/7213/47721390/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/06000866.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000866/5fa745acb8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000866/5fa745acb8-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Lawrence_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_Lawrence_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721390","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Lawrence_House_and_Garden","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19875027"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/lawrence-elizabeth-house-and-garden-06000866/"}