{"nrhp_refnum":"93000314","name":"Eliada Home","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"2 Compton Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Asheville","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.60368497200005,"lon":-82.61834627476995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-04-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district at 2 Compton Drive in the Leicester vicinity of Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It is a youth home complex with dormitories, a brick dairy farm, a founder's bungalow, a tabernacle site, a log guest cabin and a cemetery, built mainly between 1915 and the early 1930s.","why_significant":"The home was founded in 1906 by evangelical preacher Lucius B. Compton and is significant in social history as one of western North Carolina's larger child care institutions. It is also described as the state's only facility catering specifically to children of broken homes and unwed mothers. Its farm and camp meeting resources show the home's religious and agricultural character. Its varied buildings illustrate popular early twentieth-century styles.","narrative":"Eliada Home is a youth home complex on a hillside near Asheville, North Carolina, that grew from a children's refuge founded in 1906 by evangelical preacher Lucius Bunyan Compton. The historic district includes the 1915 Main Building, designed by Asheville architect Thomas E. Davis, and the 1930 Allred Cottage, a brick dormitory whose Tudor Revival details were added by builder Floyd W. Bordner. A farm complex of brick barns, a mill house and a chicken house reflects the dairy and agricultural work that helped support the home and train its boys. A northern arm of the district holds Compton's 1919 Craftsman bungalow, the terraces and concrete pillars of a 1921 tabernacle that seated up to 2,500 people, a 1930s log guest cabin and a hilltop cemetery. The district is significant for its role in North Carolina child care, for Compton's work, and for architecture reflecting the institution's uneven growth between 1915 and 1942.","period_of_significance":"1915-1942","architect_builder":"Davis, Thomas E.; Bordner, Floyd W.","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Tudor Revival, Other: Rustic","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"The 1915 Main Building is described as unoccupied and deteriorating, and many contributing buildings are underutilized or not in use. The Dairy Barn has served as a retail outlet since the late 1970s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:49.643775-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/7192/47719279/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/93000314.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719279","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliada_Home","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18149806"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/eliada-home-93000314/"}