Lyerly Building for Boys | |
Location: | Crescent Rd./Rt. 3, Gold Hill Township, North Carolina |
Coordinates: | 35.57°N -80.4297°W |
Built: | -1916 |
Architecture: | Gothic Revival, Vernacular Gothic Revival |
Added: | January 5, 1989 |
Refnum: | 88003006 |
Lyerly Building for Boys, also known as Nazareth Orphans' Home, Nazareth Children's Home or Nazareth Child & Family Connection,[1] 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.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.