{"nrhp_refnum":"82004587","name":"Holly Lawn","other_names":["Richmond Counsil of Garden Clubs House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4015 Hermitage Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.589285550000056,"lon":-77.46340395499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-08-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Holly Lawn is a 2½-story Queen Anne-style brick residence at 4015 Hermitage Road in Richmond, Virginia, built in 1901 on a 2½-acre lot. It now serves as the clubhouse of the Richmond Council of Garden Clubs.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a superb, fully developed example of Queen Anne suburban architecture, with irregular massing and rich detail. It is also closely associated with Dr. Ennion G. Williams, Virginia's first Commissioner of Health (1908-1931), who lived there for nearly twenty years and was a national figure in the progressive-era public health movement.","narrative":"Holly Lawn is a buff-brick Queen Anne residence at 4015 Hermitage Road in Richmond, completed in 1901 for insurance agent Andrew Bierne Blair. Set among mature oak and holly trees in what was then a streetcar suburb, the house has an irregular roofline with gabled, hipped and conical dormers, a corner tower, a wraparound porch, terra-cotta panels and an imbricated slate roof. Inside, an open-well stair with a carved newel and a semicircular landing balcony stands out, along with carved mantels likely supplied by the Richmond Wood Working Company. The house is also tied to Dr. Ennion G. Williams, who lived there from 1913 and served as Virginia's first Commissioner of Health from 1908 until his death in 1931. He pushed for a city health department, public hospital care, safe water and public health education. The Richmond Council of Garden Clubs bought the property in 1969 and added an auditorium wing in 1973.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1901)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Well preserved and maintained, in excellent condition; used as headquarters, library and clubhouse of the Richmond Council of Garden Clubs, with a 1973 auditorium addition and the servant's quarters used as an apartment.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.531656-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/6830/41683025/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/82004587.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004587/c8ff51485f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004587/c8ff51485f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Morgan Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holly_Lawn_Richmond_VA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Morgan Riley</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holly_Lawn_Richmond_VA.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"06000031","name":"Hermitage Road Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/hermitage-road-historic-district-06000031/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683025","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Lawn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16844254"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/holly-lawn-82004587/"}