{"nrhp_refnum":"94000130","name":"Johnston Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"103 Antioch St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Elon College","county":"Alamance County","state":"NC","lat":36.10031238900007,"lon":-79.50005837499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-03-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Johnston Hall is a two-story red brick Classical Revival building on the campus of the former Christian Orphanage, now Elon Homes for Children, in Elon College, Alamance County, North Carolina. It was built in 1925.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is locally significant as a reflection of church-based concern for orphaned children in North Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is the sole surviving structure from the orphanage's second building campaign of the 1920s, and it was the center of a complex surrounded by a working farm until World War II.","narrative":"Built in 1925 in red brick on the campus of the Christian Orphanage at Elon College, Johnston Hall was constructed by John H. Wood of Burlington, the low bidder, at a cost of about $30,000, with indoor plumbing. It was named for Charles D. Johnston, the orphanage superintendent from 1916 to 1949, and dedicated in 1928. Originally its first floor held administrative offices, a library, and kitchen and dining rooms, while children slept on the second floor. Its H-shaped plan includes a hip-roofed main block and a sleeping porch used as a summer dormitory. The building is regarded as the sole survivor of the orphanage's second building campaign of the 1920s, when the original 1906 main building was supplemented. It is significant for its association with the institution's care of children orphaned in the decades after the Civil War. The building remains the anchor of the campus, which continues residential child care today.","period_of_significance":"1925","architect_builder":"John H. Wood, contractor","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Used today for administrative offices, a reception center and staff training classes; partially restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.31078-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/7189/47718904/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/94000130.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000130/be4d8b0b20-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000130/be4d8b0b20-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Elon University","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johnston_Hall,_Elon_University.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon University</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:Johnston_Hall,_Elon_University.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718904","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_Hall_(Elon_College,_North_Carolina)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14708000"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/alamance-county/johnston-hall-94000130/"}