North Durham County Prison Camp

North Durham County Prison Camp (Former)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	2410 Broad St. Durham, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°1′54″N78°54′37″W / 36.03167°N 78.91028°W / 36.03167; -78.91028
Area	3.7 acres (1.5 ha)
Built	1925 (1925), 1944
Architect	G. Murray Nelson
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Italianate
NRHP reference No.	98001573 [1]
Added to NRHP	December 31, 1998

North Durham County Prison Camp, also known as Durham County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, is a historic prison and sanatorium located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1925, and is a three-story, T-shaped, Italianate style brick building. The building measures 232 feet long and has 17,000 square feet of floorspace. It features a three-bay, Tuscan order portico in the Colonial Revival style. The building was originally constructed to serve as a prison facility. It housed a prison between 1925 and 1938, was converted for use as a tuberculosis sanatorium beginning in 1944 and continued this function until 1953. It then housed WTVD Television Corporation until 1979. ^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Kaye Graybeal (August 1998). "North Durham County Prison Camp (Former)" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved October 1, 2014.