Woman's Working Band House
 | This article lacks inline citations besides NRIS, a database which provides minimal and sometimes ambiguous information. (March 2015) |
Woman's Working Band House | |
 | |
   | |
| Location | Tallahassee, Florida |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 30°26′57″N 84°17′34″W / 30.44917°N 84.29278°W |
| NRHP reference No. | 10000848[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 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
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Listings". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-09-09.
 | This article about a property in Leon County, Florida on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This Tallahassee, Florida-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- National Register of Historic Places in Tallahassee, Florida
- African-American history of Florida
- Buildings and structures in Tallahassee, Florida
- Housing for the elderly
- Jazz clubs in the United States
- History of women in Florida
- Big Bend Region, Florida Registered Historic Place stubs
- Leon County, Florida, geography stubs
- Tallahassee, Florida stubs