Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building

Broad and Fall Sts., Greenville, South Carolina. County/parish: Greenville.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 01, 1982. NRIS 82003865.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • A.M.E. Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building

From Wikipedia:

Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building

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.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/118996165

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