Doctors Building (Danville, Virginia)

 office building, medical center, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, International style architecture

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Historic pair of medical office buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

- Built: 1957 (south building); 1960 (north building)
- Architectural style: International
- Areas of significance: Architecture; Health/Medicine; Social History
- Date added to NRHP: 8/18/2020
- Other designations: contributing property to the Danville Historic District

"Collectively the buildings are a landmark of the post-World War II changes in medical care and clinic design beginning with the Hill-Burton Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946. In its first three years, the main building’s segregated waiting rooms fell in line with the expectations of a system of racial segregation, which was tolerated until 1965 even by health facilities built with federal funds from the Hill-Burton Act. Despite having segregated waiting rooms in its early years, the Doctors Building was one of only a few public buildings on Main Street in Danville that African American residents could freely enter. In addition to providing testimony to the emergence of significant social changes, Doctors Buildings’ residential setting in the Danville Historic District clearly illustrates trends in community planning and development during the 1950s that precipitated the decentralization of downtowns." -- Virginia Department of Historic Resources

The north building's street address is 108 Holbrook Street.

NRHP #100004989