{"nrhp_refnum":"92001602","name":"Grosvenor Gardens Apartments","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1101 Hillsborough St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.781550338000045,"lon":-78.65466942499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-11-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story, U-shaped, white-painted brick garden apartment building at 1101 Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, built in 1939 with a formal courtyard garden and a small garage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the best articulated early example of the garden apartment concept in Raleigh, combining stylized Colonial Revival architecture with a formal courtyard garden. It is described as the culmination of innovative design in both architecture and landscaping among the city's 1930s garden apartment complexes. It reflects planning ideas first seen at Sunnyside and Radburn.","narrative":"Grosvenor Gardens Apartments is a three-story, U-shaped brick apartment building on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, completed in December 1939. Architect James M. Edwards, Jr. designed it in a stylized Colonial Revival manner, with white-painted brick, two-story convex porticos, galvanized steel casement windows and glass block stairwell openings. Developer Sidney J. Wollman, who saw a housing shortage in the city, coordinated the project, and John W. Coffey and Son built it. Landscape architect G. Robert Derrick designed the courtyard garden, originally four L-shaped rose gardens edged with English boxwood, at a cost of ten thousand dollars. The complex held fifty-eight efficiency units and two small additions followed. It was listed because it is regarded as Raleigh's best articulated early garden apartment complex, outshining other 1930s examples through the combination of its architecture and ornamental landscape. It has remained in continuous use as apartments.","period_of_significance":"1939","architect_builder":"James M. Edwards, Jr., architect; J. W. Coffey and Son, building contractors; G. R. Derrick, landscape architect","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Described as in continuous use as apartments since 1939, well maintained and at or near full occupancy; some original plantings have been replaced.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.435467-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/54/7225/47722554/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/92001602.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001602/78714c7e62-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001602/78714c7e62-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nicholas Oren Rawlings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grosvenor_Gardens.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Oren Rawlings</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:Grosvenor_Gardens.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722554","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosvenor_Gardens_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20709018"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/grosvenor-gardens-apartments-92001602/"}