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Lyerly Building for Boys

Coordinates: 35°34′12″N 80°25′47″W / 35.57000°N 80.42972°W / 35.57000; -80.42972
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Lyerly Building for Boys
Lyerly Building for Boys is located in North Carolina
Lyerly Building for Boys
Lyerly Building for Boys is located in the United States
Lyerly Building for Boys
LocationCrescent Rd./Rt. 3, Gold Hill Township, North Carolina
Coordinates35°34′12″N 80°25′47″W / 35.57000°N 80.42972°W / 35.57000; -80.42972
Area4.3 acres (1.7 ha)
Built1913 (1913)-1916
Architectural styleGothic Revival, Vernacular Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.88003006[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 5, 1989

Lyerly Building for Boys, also known as Nazareth Orphans' Home, Nazareth Children's Home or Nazareth Child & Family Connection,[2] is a historic orphanage located at Gold Hill Township, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was built between 1913 and 1916, and is a two-story, front gabled, vernacular Gothic Revival style granite building. It has a steeply pitched parapeted slate roof. The building housed a school and chapel on the first floor with a boy's dormitory above.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Children's home now Nazareth Child & Family Connection". Salisbury Post. 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  3. ^ Diane M. Young (May 1988). "Lyerly Building for Boys" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
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