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Halifax County Home and Tubercular Hospital

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Built by
  
Flanigan, E.G.

Area
  
142 ha

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

Architect
  
Benton & Benton

NRHP Reference #
  
85003338

Year built
  
1923

Added to NRHP
  
10 December 1985

Halifax County Home and Tubercular Hospital

Location
  
NC 903, Halifax, North Carolina

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.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

Halifax County Home and Tubercular Hospital Wikipedia


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