{"nrhp_refnum":"00001232","name":"Quigless Clinic","other_names":["Quigless Clinic-Hospital"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"99 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tarboro","county":"Edgecombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.894564253000055,"lon":-77.53240457699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-10-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Social History","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick clinic and hospital at 99 Main Street, corner of Main and St. Andrews streets, in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1946 for Dr. Milton Quigless.","why_significant":"It was the first fully equipped African American owned and operated medical facility in Edgecombe County, founded by Dr. Milton Douglas Quigless during segregation. It is significant under Criteria A and B for Health/Medicine, Social History and Ethnic Heritage/Black. Its intact floor plan shows how the clinic functioned as an in-patient and out-patient facility.","narrative":"Built in 1946 at the corner of Main and St. Andrews streets in Tarboro, this two-story brick building housed the clinic and hospital of Dr. Milton Douglas Quigless. Quigless, a Meharry Medical College graduate, arrived in Tarboro in 1936 and was denied privileges at the local white hospital for almost ten years, treating patients in their homes. A bank loan of $30,000 allowed him to replace an old fish market with the twenty-five-bed clinic, which opened on December 3, 1946, and filled within a week. It was the first fully equipped African American owned and operated medical facility in Edgecombe County. The building is modest, with brick quoins, a belt course, a stepped cornice and glass block windows, but its floor plan survives with wards, an X-ray room, a drugstore and a nursery. Full in-patient care ended in 1975, and Quigless saw out-patients until shortly before his death in 1997. The clinic is valued for its role in African American medical care.","period_of_significance":"1946-1975","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Commercial Style","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Owned by the Quigless family, who plan to rent it as office space. The first floor was damaged by Hurricane Floyd in 1999 and contractors were replacing materials in kind. The building is otherwise unaltered apart from new dropped ceilings. The form lists current function as work in progress.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.127143-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/44/7201/47720144/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/00001232.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"80002832","name":"Tarboro Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/tarboro-historic-district-80002832/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720144","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quigless_Clinic","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18706236"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/edgecombe-county/quigless-clinic-00001232/"}