{"nrhp_refnum":"72000973","name":"Rosedale","other_names":["Frew's Folly"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3427 N. Tryon St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlotte","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.25735670000006,"lon":-80.79313597999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-09-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Rosedale, also called Frew's Folly, is a Federal-style plantation house at 3427 North Tryon Street in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, probably built by Archibald Frew shortly after 1805.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that Rosedale is one of the oldest houses in Charlotte and one of the last vestiges of its early Federal and plantation heritage. Its Adamesque interior finish and exterior massing are described as unusually academic and correct for Mecklenburg County, where plainer vernacular versions are more usual. The form suggests the builder's business ties to coastal cities may explain the elegant detail.","narrative":"Rosedale is a Federal plantation house in Charlotte, set in a cultivated garden and grove that screen it from the surrounding commercial area. The main block is two and one-half stories and three bays wide, flanked by one-and-one-half-story wings, and rests on a high stone basement. Open-pediment dormers with keystoned round-headed windows mark the roof. Inside, the west parlor has an elaborate Adamesque mantel and cornice with urns, garlands, acanthus leaves and Wall of Troy molding, and remnants of period wallpaper survive upstairs. Archibald Frew probably built the house soon after buying the land in 1805. It was sold at public sale in 1819 and passed to William Davidson, then to the Caldwell family and later Davidson descendants. The house is considered notable because its refined exterior massing and interior detail are unusual for Mecklenburg County, where Federal houses were typically plain two-story rectangular blocks.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Archibald Frew (probable builder)","architectural_style":"Federal (Adamesque interior detail)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as in good condition and altered, on its original site, in private residential use and occupied; the form says one of the owners lives in the house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.23623-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/7212/47721248/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/72000973.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000973/c6771f04e3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000973/c6771f04e3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cratons","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosedale_Plantation_House_from_driveway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cratons</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosedale_Plantation_House_from_driveway.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721248","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosedale_(Charlotte,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21016138"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/rosedale-72000973/"}