Lyerly Building for Boys

Crescent Rd./Rt. 3, Gold Hill Township, North Carolina. County/parish: Rowan.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 05, 1989. NRIS 88003006.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Nazareth Orphans' Home

From Wikipedia:

Lyerly Building for Boys

Lyerly Building for Boys, also known as Nazareth Orphans' Home, Nazareth Children's Home or Nazareth Child & Family Connection, 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.

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

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722140