{"nrhp_refnum":"80002824","name":"Watts Hospital","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Broad St. and Club Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Durham","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":36.01909848900007,"lon":-78.92056606718972,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Science","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Watts Hospital is a complex of fifteen buildings on about twenty-seven acres at Broad Street and Club Boulevard in Durham, North Carolina. It was built in phases from 1908 to 1954, with Kendall and Taylor of Boston as the original architects.","why_significant":"The complex records changing hospital design and health philosophy from 1908 to 1954, especially the pavilion plan, with its ventilation, light, fireproof reinforced-concrete construction and park-like setting. It is described as among the foremost examples of Spanish Mission style architecture in North Carolina. It was also the gift of Durham philanthropist George Watts, who replaced his earlier 1895 hospital and nursing school.","narrative":"Watts Hospital is a group of fifteen buildings on a park-like tract of about twenty-seven acres in Durham, built between 1908 and 1954. Philanthropist George Watts gave the land and financed the plant, which Kendall and Taylor of Boston designed in a modified Spanish Mission style. White stuccoed buildings with red tile roofs, Moorish ventilating cupolas and arcaded corridors stand as separate pavilions, grouped by patient type. Their design reflected early twentieth-century beliefs about fresh air, sunlight, ventilation and sanitation. The structures use reinforced concrete and brick to resist fire, an early use of the material in North Carolina. The Administration Building of 1908 is the centerpiece, with a classical loggia and a marble-floored lobby. Other buildings include the nurses' residence Wyche House, a surgery pavilion and a 1954 brick-and-glass wing by George Watts Carr. The hospital replaced an 1895 cottage-style hospital and nursing school that Watts had also founded. It served Durham for sixty-seven years.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Kendall and Taylor of Boston (Bernard S. Taylor); 1954 wing by Durham architect George Watts Carr","architectural_style":"Spanish Mission, with Renaissance Revival ornament and Beaux Arts site planning","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked unoccupied on the form; the new laundry is still used by Durham County General Hospital, and the Engineering Cottage is used as office space.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:58:56.733867-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/64/7200/47720064/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/80002824.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002824/9c94ef1fe3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002824/9c94ef1fe3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ildar Sagdejev (Specious)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2008-07-04_NCSSM_Watts.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ildar Sagdejev (Specious)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2008-07-04_NCSSM_Watts.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"01000427","name":"Watts-Hillandale Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/north-carolina/watts-hillandale-historic-district-01000427/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720064","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Hospital","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7975027"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/watts-hospital-80002824/"}