{"nrhp_refnum":"89001049","name":"Henderson, Isabelle Bowen, House and Gardens","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2134 Oberlin Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.78710639900004,"lon":-78.66224999899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1.2-acre residential property at 213 Oberlin Road in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, combining a relocated late 19th-century cottage, 1930s outbuildings and display and working gardens arranged around a brick terrace. It was developed from 1937 by artist and gardener Isabelle Bowen Henderson.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the property as a designed ensemble of buildings and gardens created by Henderson, an artist who applied color theory and Arts and Crafts principles to garden design. It links Colonial Revival building design with Gertrude Jekyll-style planting. The property also documents Henderson's garden records, crafts, and her role in Raleigh garden circles.","narrative":"At 213 Oberlin Road in Raleigh, a modest turreted Victorian cottage sits within a composed landscape of gardens and small buildings. The house has an older two-room core from the Duncan Cameron Plantation and was moved back from the road and turned to face south in 1937. Isabelle Bowen Henderson, an artist trained at the Pennsylvania Academy and Columbia University, then added a Colonial Revival studio wing and a kitchen and dining porch. She built a carriage house, an herb house and a brick terrace, and laid out front, herb and working gardens on the 1.2-acre lot. The front room holds a hand-painted mural of the colonial Carolinas. Henderson drew on color theory, Arts and Crafts ideas and the garden writing of Gertrude Jekyll, and she kept garden records that a noted North Carolina garden writer cited. The listing recognizes the site as a cohesive work joining building and landscape.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Isabelle Bowen Henderson (artist and designer of the 1937 renovation and gardens)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival; Late Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic and current functions are listed as single dwelling, secondary structure and garden. The form lists 7 contributing and 2 noncontributing resources.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:48.764394-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/7225/47722584/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/89001049.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001049/ce7d93e3fc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001049/ce7d93e3fc-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isabelle_Bowen_Henderson_House_driveway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isabelle_Bowen_Henderson_House_driveway.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722584","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Bowen_Henderson_House_and_Gardens","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20639193"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/henderson-isabelle-bowen-house-and-gardens-89001049/"}