Roselawn is a mansion in Cartersville in the U.S. state of

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and is now a museum.

Location

Roselawn is located at 244 Cherokee Avenue, Cartersville,

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, United States.

History

In the 1860s, Nelson Gilreath, a local merchant, built a one-story house with an attic. By 1872, the attic was converted into bedrooms. In the 1880s, the house was purchased by

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, a

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ist. Jones added two stories at the back of the house. By 1895, he added a third floor and a basement. After Jones died in 1906, his widow, Laura McElwain Jones, continued to reside there until the 1920s. In the 1930s, the house was purchased by Guy Parmenter and his wife, Marie Cole Bell Parmenter. The couple added an elevator and resided there until 1968. It was uninhabited for the next decade. The house was acquired by Bartow County in 1978. They converted it into a museum about the lives of Samuel Porter Jones and another famed resident of Cartersville (though not Roselawn), Rebecca Latimer Felton.

Architectural significance

It has been listed on the

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since January 12, 1973.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roselawn Houses in Bartow County, Georgia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) National Register of Historic Places in Bartow County, Georgia