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Primrose Cottage is a historic residence in Roswell, Georgia. It was the first permanent private home in Roswell. The house was completed in 1839 for Roswell King's recently widowed daughter, Eliza King Hand, and her children. Roswell King also moved into the house with his daughter's family. As of 2023, the house functions as an events' facility.
The Roswell Historic District, in Roswell, Georgia in Fulton County, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1] The district is a 120 acres (49 ha) area roughly bounded by Big Creek, King and Dam Streets, and SW along New Marietta Hwy, in Roswell. Structures in the district date from as early as 1837. [2]
The Colony was named Roswell, for Barrington King's father, in 1854. Barrington King selected the highest point in Roswell for his home, Barrington Hall. It was built by Willis Ball in the Greek revival style of architecture. When the house was finished in 1842, Barrington lived in it with his wife, Catherine, until his death in 1866.
The home was sold to the City of Roswell in 1986 and opened to the public as a house museum in 1991. In addition to the home, the grounds include a guest house, slave quarters, cookhouse, carriage house, barn, spring house and water well. The plantation was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. [2]
Major Bulloch selected a ten-acre plot of land and engaged a skilled builder, Willis Ball, to design and construct an elegant Greek Revival home. The Bulloch family lived in an abandoned Cherokee farmhouse while slaves and trained laborers built the house. In 1839, Major Bulloch and his family moved into the completed house.
The antebellum mansion sits on a nine-acre (3.6 ha) estate originally built in 1841 for John Dunwoody, one of the shareholders in the Roswell Manufacturing Company. Andrew J. Hansell purchased the home in 1869 from George H. Camp and named the home after the mimosa trees on the property. [1] Mrs. Barrington King purchased the house in 1898. [2]
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