{"nrhp_refnum":"03000190","name":"Pine Camp Tuberculosis Hospital","other_names":["127-0829"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4901 Old Brook Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.60029038750005,"lon":-77.446016854146,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-04-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Health/Medicine"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A surviving group of three buildings from a former municipal tuberculosis hospital at 4901 Old Brook Road in northern Richmond, Virginia, set in a pine and oak grove. The buildings are the 1932 Central Building, a Bungalow-style Administration Building, and a 1922 Laundry/Garage Building, designed by Carneal and Johnston.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex shows the regimented, open-air treatment of tuberculosis in the early to mid-twentieth century, with a Central Building designed around fresh-air galleries and wards. It also reflects the work of the Richmond architectural firm Carneal and Johnston. It records the growth of Pine Camp from a private charity camp to a city hospital, including its segregated facilities.","narrative":"Pine Camp Tuberculosis Hospital is a group of three surviving buildings on a wooded tract in northern Richmond, once part of a 167-acre city farm. A private Tuberculosis Camp Society opened the camp in 1910, and the city took control in 1916. The remaining buildings are a 1922 laundry and garage, the two-story Central Building of 1932, and a Bungalow-style administration building. Carneal and Johnston designed the later buildings. The Central Building is a flat-roofed, stucco-covered structure with two-story open galleries that served as sleeping and living porches, reflecting treatment based on fresh air, rest and isolation. Wards were arranged to maximize ventilation. The hospital's history also includes a separate, lower-cost infirmary for Black patients, built under segregation. Antibiotics reduced the need for long stays in the 1950s, and the site became a recreation center in the early 1960s. The remaining buildings, in a grove of mature trees, keep the camp-like character of the property.","period_of_significance":"1909-1957","architect_builder":"Carneal and Johnston (architects); John T. Wilson (builder)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century: Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The Central Building is under-maintained but kept heated and lit by the city for possible reuse; the Administration Building serves as a parks department office; the Laundry/Garage Building is in very poor condition with holes in the roof.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.157966-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/6831/41683107/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/03000190.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000190/67ac9dbf77-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000190/67ac9dbf77-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Morgan Riley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_Camp_Tuberculosis_Hospital_Administration_Building.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Morgan Riley</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pine_Camp_Tuberculosis_Hospital_Administration_Building.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683107","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Camp_Tuberculosis_Hospital","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16898409"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/pine-camp-tuberculosis-hospital-03000190/"}