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Eliada Home | |
 Allred Cottage, 2021 | |
  Location within North Carolina  Location within the United States | |
| Location | 2 Compton Dr., near Asheville, North Carolina |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 35°36′08″N 82°37′08″W / 35.60222°N 82.61889°W |
| Area | 25 acres (10 ha) |
| Built | 1915 |
| Architect | Davis, Thomas E.; Bordner, Floyd W. |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Bungalow/craftsman, Tudor Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 93000314[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 22, 1993 |
Eliada Home is a national historic district located near Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district originally encompassed ten contributing buildings and three contributing sites associated with a youth home complex in suburban Asheville. Of the original ten, only five remain. They include the early residential, administrative, and agricultural buildings of the home as well as a residence, a tabernacle site, a log guest cabin, and a cemetery. The primary buildings were the Main Building (built in 1915, but is no longer extant) and the Allred Cottage (1930). The buildings included representative examples of the Colonial Revival, Bungalow, Bungalow/craftsman, and Tudor Revival styles.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.[1]
Modern use
The Eliada Home site is used as the headquarters of the non-profit child services agency Eliada. Eliada began as an orphanage in 1905, and began to provide foster care services some years later. Now, Eliada offers both foster and educational services for children in North Carolina.[3]
In February 2021, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services ordered Eliada to shut down two of its cottages for high-risk teenagers, stating that those cottages presented "an imminent danger to the health, safety and welfare of the clients".[4] The department cited issues going back to 2018, including teens running away, high staff turnover, an instance of sexual relations between a staff member and a client, and an instance of rape not being reported to the police.[5]
Gallery
Dairy Barn, 2022
Calf Barn, 2022
References
- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ↑ J. Daniel Pezzoni (August 1992). "Eliada Home" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
- ↑ "Mission and History". Eliada Homes. Retrieved May 10, 2026.
- ↑ Clasen-Kelly, Fred; Sandhu-Longoria, Amritpal Kaur (February 22, 2021). "Children at Asheville mental health center faced 'imminent danger,' state says". Asheville Citizen-Times.
- ↑ King, Kimberly (February 23, 2021). "'Failing the children': Former Eliada employee speaks out after allegations come to light". WLOS.
See also
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina
- Tudor Revival architecture in North Carolina
- Buildings and structures in Buncombe County, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Buncombe County, North Carolina
- Brick buildings and structures in North Carolina
- Buncombe County, North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs