North Durham County Prison Camp (Former) | |
Location: | 2410 Broad St. Durham, North Carolina |
Coordinates: | 35.1303°N -78.9336°W |
Built: | , 1944 |
Architect: | G. Murray Nelson |
Architecture: | Colonial Revival, Italianate |
Added: | December 31, 1998 |
Refnum: | 98001573 |
North Durham County Prison Camp, also known as Durham County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, is a historic prison and sanatorium located at Durham, Durham County, North Carolina. It was built in 1925, and is a three-story, T-shaped, Italianate style brick building. The building measures 232 feet long and has 17,000 square feet of floorspace. It features a three-bay, Tuscan order portico in the Colonial Revival style. The building was originally constructed to serve as a prison facility. It housed a prison between 1925 and 1938, was converted for use as a tuberculosis sanatorium beginning in 1944 and continued this function until 1953. It then housed WTVD Television Corporation until 1979.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.