Lyerly Building for Boys

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Lyerly Building for Boys
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LocationCrescent Rd./Rt. 3, Gold Hill Township, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°34′12″N80°25′47″W / 35.57000°N 80.42972°W / 35.57000; -80.42972
Area4.3 acres (1.7 ha)
Built1913 (1913)-1916
Architectural styleGothic Revival, Vernacular Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No. 88003006 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 5, 1989

Lyerly Building for Boys, also known as Nazareth Orphans' Home, Nazareth Children's Home or Nazareth Child & Family Connection, [2] is a historic orphanage located at Gold Hill Township, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was built between 1913 and 1916, and is a two-story, front gabled, vernacular Gothic Revival style granite building. It has a steeply pitched parapeted slate roof. The building housed a school and chapel on the first floor with a boy's dormitory above. [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Children's home now Nazareth Child & Family Connection". Salisbury Post . February 17, 2016. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ Diane M. Young (May 1988). "Lyerly Building for Boys" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.


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