Built 1887 (1887)-1888 NRHP Reference # 75001298 Added to NRHP 29 May 1975 | Architect Wilson, John Appleton Area 4 ha | |
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Lea Laboratory is a historic laboratory building located on the original campus of Wake Forest University at Wake Forest, Wake County, North Carolina. It was designed by noted Baltimore architect John Appleton Wilson (1851–1927) and built in 1887–1888. It consists of a two-story pedimented central brick block, three bays wide and seven deep flanked by one-story pedimented brick wings. The building has a blend of Colonial Revival and Victorian design elements. It is the oldest remaining building on the original campus of Wake Forest University, now Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and was one of the first chemical laboratories constructed on a Southern college campus.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It is located in the Wake Forest Historic District.