{"nrhp_refnum":"73000607","name":"Roselawn","other_names":["Sam Jones House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"244 Cherokee Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cartersville","county":"Bartow County","state":"GA","lat":34.165370755000026,"lon":-84.80272649799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-01-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Roselawn, also called the Sam Jones House, is a Victorian frame house with outbuildings at 244 Cherokee Avenue in Cartersville, Bartow County, Georgia. It grew from a cottage into a large house between 1870 and 1895 and was the home of evangelist Sam Jones.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the house as an unusual example of the organic growth of a Victorian house, expanded from a cottage by lifting it and building new floors beneath. It is also significant as the home of Sam Jones, a nationally known evangelist who lived in Cartersville until his death in 1906.","narrative":"Roselawn, the Sam Jones House at 244 Cherokee Avenue in Cartersville, Georgia, began as a four-bedroom cottage and became a rambling three-story Victorian house between 1870 and 1895. When the family needed more space and Jones's wife did not want to give up her cottage, it was raised on stilts while a new first floor and basement were built beneath it. The result has double front verandas, slate-roofed porches with carved columns, a mansard-roofed third floor with seven dormers, and hand-carved ceiling scrollwork inside. A study, brick carriage house, smokehouse and kitchen survive on the grounds, which once held over 200 rose bushes. The house matters for its unusual growth and as the home of evangelist Sam Jones, whose revivals reached across the United States and parts of Canada. He lived in Cartersville until his death in 1906, and the house reflected the wealth he earned during his career.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific dates 1870, 1895)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good; the grounds had grown over with vegetation. The city of Cartersville was in the process of purchasing the property and wished to restore it as a museum and community meeting facility.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.960147-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/73000607.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000607/b59bf1deb9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000607/b59bf1deb9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Amesmultimedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roselawn.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Amesmultimedia</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:Roselawn.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93206958","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roselawn_(Cartersville,_Georgia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25351780"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/bartow-county/roselawn-73000607/"}