{"nrhp_refnum":"04000647","name":"Bertie Memorial Hospital","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"401 Sterlingworth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Windsor","county":"Bertie County","state":"NC","lat":36.000220822000074,"lon":-76.95340851499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story modern hospital building at 401 Sterlingworth Street in Windsor, Bertie County, North Carolina, with several later ancillary buildings on a block near downtown. It was designed by George Watts Carr and dedicated in 1952.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hospital is locally significant for health and medicine because it brought advanced care to Bertie County, which previously had few facilities, under federal Hill-Burton Act funding. It is also argued to be an excellent local example of mid twentieth-century International Style-inspired design that retains much of its architectural integrity.","narrative":"Built on a city block near downtown Windsor and completed in 1952, Bertie Memorial Hospital is a three-story building designed by George Watts Carr in a restrained International Style. Its fourteen-inch brick walls, horizontal ribbon windows framed in limestone, steel hopper windows and glass block stairwells give it a simple geometric form. The hospital was funded under the federal Hill-Burton Act of 1946, which helped rural and small communities build hospitals they had previously lacked. Bertie County had only a small emergency hospital before it opened, and the new fifty-bed facility offered x-ray equipment, operating rooms, a delivery room and a pharmacy. Its original interior plan, with a central corridor, terrazzo floors and glass block stairwells, largely survives. The building is listed for its importance to local health care and for the integrity of its modern design.","period_of_significance":"1952-1954","architect_builder":"Carr, George Watts","architectural_style":"Modern Movement: International Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.935484-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/69/7190/47719069/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/04000647.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000647/856796eb9d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000647/856796eb9d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vidant_Bertie_Hospital.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vidant_Bertie_Hospital.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719069","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECU_Health_Bertie_Hospital","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4895649"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/bertie-county/bertie-memorial-hospital-04000647/"}