National Register of Historic Places
Haywood County Hospital
Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina
The record
- Listed
- June 22, 2018
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 1230 N Main St., Waynesville
- County
- Haywood
- State
- North Carolina
- Contributing resources
- 1 building, 1 structure
- Coordinates
- 35.49671, -82.97241
- Reference number
- 100002596
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The story
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The Haywood County Hospital is a hospital building at 1230 N Main St. in Waynesville, Haywood County, built in 1927 in the Classical Revival style, with Modernist additions. The nomination names Louis Humbert Asbury Sr. and Henry Bowman Foy III as architects.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local significance in architecture and health and medicine. Its period of significance runs from 1927 to 1968, reflecting the building's construction in 1927 and a 1966 addition of stair towers and a third-story solarium.
Physical character
The brick building has a limestone cornice with square modillions and a Classical Revival portico. A 1966 addition added flanking three-story stair towers in pressed red brick and an aluminum-frame curtain wall of spandrel glass and glass block. Original terrazzo floors, ceramic-tile wainscoting, and pendant light fixtures survive inside.
Historical context
Waynesville Hospital, Inc. opened in 1917, and the building served as a hospital from 1927 to 1981. A 1933 Duke Endowment grant funded construction of the nurses' dormitory, and the hospital reached 100-bed capacity with a 1952 addition. After a regional medical center opened in 1979, the building was converted to county offices in 1980-1981, and part of it became the Highland Memorial Apartments in 2013.