Halifax County Home and Tubercular Hospital
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Halifax County Home and Tubercular Hospital | |
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| Location | NC 903, Halifax, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°21′12″N 77°37′17″W / 36.35333°N 77.62139°WCoordinates: 36°21′12″N 77°37′17″W / 36.35333°N 77.62139°W |
| Area | 350 acres (140 ha) |
| Built | 1923 |
| Built by | Flanigan, E.G. |
| Architect | Benton & Benton |
| Architectural style | Classical |
| NRHP Reference # | 85003338[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 10, 1985 |
The Halifax County Home and Tubercular Hospital is a historic hospital complex and national historic district located near Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina. The listing included nine contributing buildings, two contributing sites and one contributing structure including the site of the first (ca. 1845) Halifax County home and cemetery, the 1923 county home, and its neighbor, the county tubercular hospital, completed in 1925. Other contributing resources are domestic and agricultural outbuildings. The county home was designed by noted architects Benton & Benton and is a Neoclassical brick building composed of a two-story central pavilion with one-story hyphenated wings. The tubercular hospital is a one-story brick building with a gable roof. The hospital closed in 1973. The tubercular hospital has been destroyed.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
References
- 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ Drucilla H. York and Jerry L. Cross (September 1985). "Halifax County Home and Tubercular Hospital" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.
The picture that you have posted is of a school that was put where the old Tubercular Hospital use to be,,that is the old Rosenwald school moved there from Allen Grove ..I do not have a picture of the old Tubercular Hospital but knew it well for I have lived next to it as a kid,,it was a cement block and brick building covered with stucco,,i had been in there many times as a kid.the first original county home site consisted of four houses,,i bought one of them from the county and remodeled it and live in it today,,the other three were torn down.
