{"nrhp_refnum":"98001573","name":"North Durham County Prison Camp (Former)","other_names":["Durham County Tuberculosis Sanatorium (Former)"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2410 Broad St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Durham","county":"Durham County","state":"NC","lat":35.13037924200006,"lon":-78.93336537399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-12-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Health/Medicine"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick former county prison building on Broad Street (formerly Newton Road) in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, constructed in 1925 for the county's convict road-crew prison and later converted to a tuberculosis sanatorium.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its association with county government efforts to house prisoners and build roads during the Good Roads era, and for its role as one of the few surviving major tuberculosis sanatoriums in North Carolina, which served Durham during a period of high local disease rates.","narrative":"Built in 1925 on Broad Street in northwest Durham, this three-story brick T-plan building was designed by G. Murray Nelson and erected by Thompson and Cannady at a final cost of $114,000. It served as a convict road-crew prison for the county, with inmates building roads during the statewide Good Roads movement, and it housed prisoners until 1938, when state authorities took over the county prison system. Renovated in 1944, it became the Durham County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, serving a population that was half white and half black, with separate wings for men and women. Durham had some of the highest tuberculosis rates in the state, and the sanatorium operated until 1953, when falling case numbers after the arrival of new drugs led to its closure. The building later housed a television station before its 1992 conversion to a medical practice. Its exterior remains largely unaltered, with a Tuscan portico and nine-over-nine windows.","period_of_significance":"1925-1953","architect_builder":"G. Murray Nelson (architect); Thompson and Cannady (contractor)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Most recently renovated in 1992 and housing a private family medical practice; the document states it stood vacant from 1979 until 1992.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.102617-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/86/7200/47720086/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/98001573.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001573/10c9676db4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001573/10c9676db4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Maria Miracoli","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Durham_County_Prison_Camp.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Maria Miracoli</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:North_Durham_County_Prison_Camp.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720086","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Durham_County_Prison_Camp","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18706170"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/durham-county/north-durham-county-prison-camp-former-98001573/"}