Roselawn (Cartersville, Georgia)

In the 1860s, Nelson Gilreath, a local merchant, built a one-story house with an attic.^[3] By 1872, the attic was converted into bedrooms.^[3]

In the 1880s, the house was purchased by Samuel Porter Jones, a Christian revivalist.^[2][3] Jones added two stories at the back of the house.^[3] By 1895, he added a third floor and a basement.^[3] After Jones died in 1906, his widow, Laura McElwain Jones, continued to reside there until the 1920s.^[3]

In the 1930s, the house was purchased by Guy Parmenter and his wife, Marie Cole Bell Parmenter.^[3] The couple added an elevator and resided there until 1968.^[3] It was uninhabited for the next decade.^[3]

The house was acquired by Bartow County in 1978.^[3] 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.^[2][3]

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 12, 1973.^[1]