{"nrhp_refnum":"12000313","name":"Lexington Memorial Hospital","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"111 North Carolina Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lexington","county":"Davidson County","state":"NC","lat":35.809999392000066,"lon":-80.24866378399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-05-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Health/Medicine"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three- and four-story, T-shaped yellow-brick hospital building at 111 North Carolina Avenue in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina, opened in December 1946 and designed by architect Charles Conrad Hartmann.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant locally for health and medicine as a symbol of community effort, with about ninety percent of the funding raised by city and county residents during the Depression and World War II. It is also a distinctive local example of Art Deco and Art Moderne design, unlike other public buildings in Lexington, and is the work of a prominent Greensboro architect.","narrative":"Lexington Memorial Hospital is a yellow-brick, T-shaped building of three and four stories on North Carolina Avenue in Lexington, North Carolina. Designed by Greensboro architect Charles Conrad Hartmann, it opened on December 23, 1946, and combines Art Deco touches at the curved, pilastered entrance with the horizontal bands and simple geometry of Art Moderne. Local dairyman George S. Coble led a fund-raising effort in which residents and workers supplied roughly ninety percent of the money, despite the aftermath of the Depression and competing war bond drives. Memorial plaques for individual rooms helped pay for equipment. The hospital later gained a new emergency room, air-conditioned operating rooms and updated obstetrics, including a 1957 infill of the rear wing and a 1958 addition. Converted to apartments in 1994, it keeps its original layout. It was listed for its role in the city's health care history and for its architecture.","period_of_significance":"1946-1961","architect_builder":"Hartmann, Charles Conrad (architect); Robert H. Pinnix of Gastonia (contractor)","architectural_style":"Art Deco and Moderne (Art Moderne)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Converted to apartments in 1994; the building is currently used as multiple dwellings and retains its original corridor layout.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:54.335367-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/7199/47719947/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/12000313.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000313/57db273155-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000313/57db273155-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Kenneth C. Zirkel","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lexington_Memorial_Hospital,_Lexington,_North_Carolina.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenneth C. Zirkel</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lexington_Memorial_Hospital,_Lexington,_North_Carolina.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719947","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexington_Memorial_Hospital","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18346301"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/davidson-county/lexington-memorial-hospital-12000313/"}