Lea Laboratory is a historic

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building located on the original campus of Wake Forest College (now

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) at Wake Forest,

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. It was designed by noted Baltimore architect John Appleton Wilson (1851–1927) and built in 1887–1888. It consists of a two-story pedimented central brick block, three bays wide and seven deep flanked by one-story pedimented brick wings. The building has a blend of

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and

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design elements. It is the oldest remaining building on the original campus of Wake Forest University, now

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, and was one of the first chemical laboratories constructed on a Southern college campus. It was listed on the

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in 1975. It is located in the Wake Forest Historic District.

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