The Halifax County Home and Tubercular Hospital is a historic hospital

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and national

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located near Halifax,

Halifax County, North Carolina Halifax County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,622. Its county seat is Halifax. Halifax County is part of the Roanoke Rapids, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is al ...

. The listing included nine

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, two

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and one

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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 architects

Benton & Benton Benton & Benton was an architectural partnership in eastern North Carolina of brothers Charles C. Benton Sr. and Frank W. Benton. Several of its works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Charles C. Benton Jr. and others al ...

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

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in 1985.

References

Hospital buildings completed in 1923 Hospital buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Neoclassical architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Halifax County, North Carolina Tuberculosis sanatoria in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Halifax County, North Carolina 1925 establishments in North Carolina {{HalifaxCountyNC-NRHP-stub