Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building


Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building, March 2012
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Location	Broad and Fall Sts., Greenville, South Carolina
Coordinates	34°50′50″N 82°23′56″W / 34.84722°N 82.39889°W / 34.84722; -82.39889Coordinates: 34°50′50″N 82°23′56″W / 34.84722°N 82.39889°W / 34.84722; -82.39889
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Built	1922 (1922)
Built by	Working Benevolent State Grand Lodge
MPS	Greenville MRA
NRHP Reference #	82003865^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 1, 1982

Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building is a historic office building located at Greenville, South Carolina. It was built in 1922, and is a three-story, steel frame brick building. The building housed offices for African-American doctors, lawyers, dentists, a newspaper, and insurance firms and housed the first black mortuary in Greenville. The temple was also the center for Greenville’s civil rights activities during the 1960s.^[2]^[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ unknown (n.d.). "Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
↑ "Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building, Greenville County (Broad & Fall Sts., Greenville)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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