648 W Brevard St, Tallahassee, Florida. County/parish: Leon.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 20, 2010. NRIS 10000848.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
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.
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.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77842994