{"nrhp_refnum":"11000889","name":"City Hospital-Gaston Memorial Hospital","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"401-405 N. Highland St., 810 Mauney Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gastonia","county":"Gaston County","state":"NC","lat":35.26955299100007,"lon":-81.19506483099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-12-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Health/Medicine"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former hospital complex northwest of downtown Gastonia at North Highland Street and Mauney Avenue, comprising a 1924 Classical Revival hospital building, a 1951 Modernist hospital building, a 1957 connecting addition and emergency wing, and a 1947 nurses' school and dormitory.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is locally significant for the medical care it provided in the Gastonia area from 1924 to 1961, including its change from private to county ownership and its role under the Hill-Burton program. It also argues the buildings are architecturally important as examples of hospital design from 1924 to 1957, with a Classical Revival building and a Modernist building.","narrative":"Built in 1924 on North Highland Street in Gastonia, the original four-story City Hospital was designed by Columbia, South Carolina architect Charles Coker Wilson and erected by the Palmer-Spivey Company of Charlotte at a cost of $162,000. Its brick walls and classical features, including a paired Tuscan-column portico and a metal cornice, reflect the fireproof, commanding institutional design of the period. The hospital grew from a small private institution founded in 1908 and served a nurses' training school and several railway companies. In 1946 a fundraising effort by the American Legion led to county ownership and renaming as Gaston Memorial Hospital. Federal Hill-Burton funding supported the 1951 building, a 150-bed Modernist hospital by Walter Hook and Associates of Charlotte with curtain walls and flat-roofed canopies. A 1957 addition connected the two buildings. The complex is significant for its role in local medical care and for these examples of hospital architecture.","period_of_significance":"1924-1961","architect_builder":"Charles Coker Wilson (architect, 1924 building); Walter Hook and Associates (architect, 1951 building); Palmer-Spivey Company (general contractor, 1924 building)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival; Modernist","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The 1924 building was occupied by county offices until 2005 and has been undergoing rehabilitation; the hospital moved to a new facility in 1973.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.731363-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/91/7203/47720391/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/11000889.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000889/3fec60b263-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000889/3fec60b263-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:City_Hospital-Gaston_Memorial_Hospital.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:City_Hospital-Gaston_Memorial_Hospital.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720391","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Hospital-Gaston_Memorial_Hospital","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18706224"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/gaston-county/city-hospital-gaston-memorial-hospital-11000889/"}