Woman's Working Band House

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Woman's Working Band House
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Location Tallahassee, Florida
Coordinates 30°26′57″N84°17′34″W / 30.44917°N 84.29278°W / 30.44917; -84.29278
NRHP reference No. 10000848 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 20, 2010

Woman's Working Band House is a historic house in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. It is located at 648 W. Brevard St. in Frenchtown, the oldest surviving African-American community in Florida.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 20, 2010. [1]

This completely restored National Register Property currently (2018) houses the B Sharps Jazz Club. This house is one of the few recognized, extant properties financed jointly by rank and file and upper class African-American women. Its cornerstone was laid in 1921 by the Woman's [sic] Working Band and it was built to serve as an Old Folks Home.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Listings" (PDF). National Park Service . Retrieved 2014-09-09.
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